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« on: August 08, 2008, 09:17:46 PM »

Is there anywhere (other than the US) where the left-wing party uses blue and the right-wing party red? The only one I can think of is Quebec between the fall of the UN and the rise of ADQ.
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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2008, 03:00:10 AM »

I don't think the parties "use" colors do they?  The TV news are the ones shoving that idiocy down our throats.
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2008, 03:14:12 AM »

     I very, very strongly doubt it. After all, red is the internationally-recognized color of communism, while blue is the internationally-recognized color of monarchism. I suspect that if any party anywhere else tried it, the public would be deeply confused.

     By the way, this makes me want to bump up the thread on The Atlas board complaining about the site switching red & blue.
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« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2008, 02:47:09 PM »

I don't think the parties "use" colors do they?  The TV news are the ones shoving that idiocy down our throats.

The Democrats are now using blue everywhere and promoting their various projects as "turning things blue". The Republicans have been less enthusiastic about red (for an obvious reason), but compare:

http://www.gop.com/
http://www.democrats.org/
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2008, 03:07:46 PM »


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« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2008, 03:58:10 PM »

In some parts of Wales the Liberals used blue up until the 1970's. Not that Liberals in those areas could ever be mistaken for being left-wing. And in Newcastle the Tory colour used to be red (again, until the 1970's; the decade in which elections were first broadcast in colour...) while Labour's colour was green. Red was the Tory colour due to it being the colour of the Percy family, green for Labour had (IIRC) something to do with Irish immigrants.
I think that the Tories in Liverpool sometimes used red as well (or at least a reddish orange...).
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« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2008, 07:35:15 PM »

That's exactly what I was going to say.  The Democrats LOVE the blue.
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