Extra Ordinary Ideas

Red and Blue

As many of my classmates are too young to have noticed, the networks traditionally switch the political parties’ assigned colors on presidential election nights every four years. For all the talk of media bias, this is an effort at fairness. After all, red has negative associations in our country, from Spielberg’s Evil Empire to Reagan’s.

But four years of “red state, blue state” commentary has generated a dilemma: will it be too confusing to switch this time? Anyone know what the networks plan this year? Will the Republicans be annoyed if they miss their turn to be the Blue Team?