Politics with Paul Podcast Episode #4: What are the Red, Blue, and Purple States?

Paul Rader
1 min readAug 28, 2024

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Episode 4 of the Politics with Paul Podcast, What are the Red, Blue, and Purple States?, is available now!

YouTube: https://youtu.be/N23-Fe_u_xo
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fUtZHJtlVRdDN7MSLwweS
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politics-with-paul-podcast-4-what-are-the-red-blue/id1755201463?i=1000666932216

You hear about “red” and “blue” and even “purple” states all the time in elections — red for Republican, blue for Democrat, and purple for a mix of the two. Yet what criteria are needed to actually tell when a state is one of these colors? How did we even get to using red and blue colors for the Republican and Democratic Parties, respectively? Which states are red, which are blue, and which are purple? How have these shades changed over time? All this and more are the subject of today’s Politics with Paul podcast episode.

Today’s random question: What is the coolest planet in the Solar System (you can’t say “Earth”)? Leave your answer in the comments below or comment on the video where available.

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Paul Rader
Paul Rader

Written by Paul Rader

Nonpartisan political analyst, researcher, and speaker; self-published author; bridging political divisions and closing gaps in civic knowledge

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