Blue And Red States Map
Below is an interactive version of the map presented by sosnik with red and blue states and the battleground states he identified in grey.
Blue and red states map. The 2020 battleground states. Red and blue map 2016. Here is a list of the strongest red states in the country. For instance despite the narrow popular vote margin in 2016 more than two dozen states were decided by margins of 15 percentage points or more.
You can use it as the basis for your own electoral college forecast. As the 2016 election cycle approached the electoral map had become pretty predictable. Into the people s. The measurement of how strongly a united states congressional district or state leans toward the democratic or republican party compared to the nation as a whole is known.
In vermont the democratic party has an advantage of 22. Barack obama managed to win in many republican red wall states in the 2008 election which was another year that made an exception to the rule. Into the people s. Alaskan voters traditionally veer republican and have voted that way in all but one election since they first began participating in presidential elections in 1960.
His proposal was to split the country into two new ones. A red state and a blue state. Now we feature a map. The new york times.
The terms red state and blue state have been in familiar lexicon since the 2000 us presidential election. In 1988 when the popular vote margin was seven percentage points there were just 17 states which were won by such big margins. On a map accompanying the article he proposed a division of the u s. It was during the 2000 presidential election when journalist tim russert used the terms red states and blue states based on the colored maps that were used during his televised coverage.
Blue or red states since 2000. Or you can use the current consensus electoral map based on the latest forecasts and polls. If a state is not a red state or a blue state it might be a swing state. Origins of the color scheme.
That s changed in recent years as polarization has increased resulting in red and blue strongholds with bigger victory margins. On a map accompanying the article he proposed a division of the u s. Since that time media outlets have used red for republican and blue for democrat as the standard color scheme for their maps. On monday we featured a map from 2012 and asked you what you could learn from it.
All but 10 states 1 1 plus one congressional district in nebraska had voted consistently democratic or republican for at least the prior four consecutive presidential elections. During the 2016 presidential election donald trump the republican candidate managed to secure a win in three blue wall states. His proposal was to split the country into two new ones. A map showing red states blue states and swing states as of the 2016 election.
A red state and a blue state.