In some ways, the broad outlines of the maps aren’t anything new. Hand a red and blue crayon to anyone who pays close attention to local politics and ask her to color in the the political ...

It’s enormous and it's gorgeous. — David Brinkley The map has also become a symbol of political division in the country. But while red and blue states are now part of our political lexicon ...

T he United States map is traditionally split into “Red” and “Blue” states, where red states lean Republican and blue states ...

The map will be updated as soon as the election ... every state includes voters across the political spectrum; the red or ...

As Chuck Todd, then political director and chief White House correspondent for NBC News, said in 2012, “For years, both parties would do red and blue maps, but they always made the other guys red.

The series of maps below give views of party control from various perspectives, including the predominance of Democratic mayors in the nation’s largest cities in both red and blue states.

That marked a turning point in how America's major political parties are symbolized ... and you see a map with red and blue, it simplifies things. You don't really need to know a whole lot ...

right? Simply put, no. The designation of colors for specific parties, in this case, red for Republicans and blue for Democrats, is something that is so ingrained in the political arena it is hard ...

some of the earliest electoral maps, like Scribner’s 1883 Statistical Atlas of the United States, used a red-for-Democrat, blue-for-Republican scheme that would have been familiar to political ...

Over the next several months I’ll visit several of those western states to explore the forces that remade the political map. Through ... s change from red to blue. After 10 years in Congress ...