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Wave elections in the United States are elections in which a political party makes major gains. Based on the "red states and blue states" color coding convention in use since 2000, wave elections have often been described as either "blue waves" or "red waves" depending on which party makes significant gains, referring to a major increase in seats held by either the Democratic Party (associated ...
The "blue wall" is a term coined in 2009 in the political culture of the United States to refer to the several states (along with Washington, D.C.) that reliably "voted blue" i.e. for the Democratic Party in the six consecutive presidential elections from 1992 to 2012.
Bitecofer has been noted for accurately predicting the size of the "Blue Wave" in the 2018 United States midterm elections much earlier than other forecasters. [2] She projected before the election that Democrats would gain 42 U.S. House seats in the election; [2] the results saw Democrats gain 41 seats. [5]
"I've gotten sick and tired of red versus blue, Democrats versus Republicans," Donna Brazile, a longtime Democratic political strategist and former interim DNC chair, told USA TODAY.
Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
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In American politics, a blue shift, also called a red mirage, [1] [2] is an observed phenomenon under which counts of in-person votes are more likely than overall vote counts to be for the Republican Party (whose party color is red), while provisional votes or absentee ballots, which are often counted later, are more likely than overall vote counts to be for the Democratic Party (whose color ...
On an unseasonably warm October evening in eastern Nebraska on Saturday, with only 17 days until the 2024 presidential election, both the Harris and Trump campaigns descended upon the Cornhusker ...