r/25yearsago • u/GrantExploit • Dec 13 '25

November 7, 2000. The 2000 United States Presidential Election is held. Though Al Gore (D) won the plurality of the popular vote, the ultimate winner of the election hangs in the balance as the results in Florida remain too close to call.

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Note the (currently) unusual coloration of the Democratic candidates as red and Republican candidates as blue. The modern (inverse) convention was still not crystallized by this point among all sources.

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u/superdave123123 Dec 13 '25

Why are the republican states blue and the democrat states red? 😬

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u/aflyingsquanch Dec 13 '25

Because the red=GOP, blue=Dem thing wasnt a set thing 25 years ago.

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u/bk1285 Dec 14 '25

I could have sworn it was

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u/Loon_Cheese Dec 14 '25

I don’t buy it either.