Talk:2068: Election Night

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This is an early example of using red and blue to denote candidates and parties. Here, McKinley (R) gets blue and Bryan (D) red; it wasn't standardized on blue for Democrats and red for Republicans until after the 2000 election. NBC News having used red/R and blue/D that year, Tom Brokaw was the first to speak extensively of "red states" and "blue states" elevating that to political meme status and leading to standardization. 162.158.78.166 14:36, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

I was just going to mention the hat :) 108.162.246.191 14:57, 5 November 2018 (UTC)