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'''Purple state''' is a term gaining popularity in the US media. It refers to "battleground" or "swing" states in United States Presidential elections. These states are the ones that candidates expend disproportionate resources in. Examples of "purple" states include: [[Pennsylvania]], [[Ohio]], [[Colorado]], [[Iowa]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[New Hampshire]].<ref>http://www.wordspy.com/words/purplestate.asp</ref>
'''Purple state''' is a term which refers to "battleground" or "swing" states in [[United States President]]ial elections.
As many states are dominated by one party or the other (examples are California and New York for the Democrats and Texas for the Republicans), purple states are the ones in which candidates expend disproportionate resources as they are the only ones where a party is not guaranteed virtual success.
==See Also==
Examples of "purple" states include [[Florida]], [[Pennsylvania]], and [[Ohio]].<ref>http://www.wordspy.com/words/purplestate.asp</ref> Florida is usually the most important of the battleground states because it has the largest number of electoral votes among swing states (and the third-most of any state), due to the fact George W. Bush won there in the [[2000 Presidential Election]] by a mere 537 votes, and due to the fact Presidential candidates can campaign in the state's mild weather during the otherwise frigid fall season. Ohio is seen as the bellweather state<ref>[https://www.270towin.com/states/Ohio 270toWin Ohio election history]</ref> because winning the state is crucial to winning 270 electoral votes.
* [[Red state]]
* [[Blue state]]
"Purple" refers to the tradition of classifying states as "[[Red state|Red]]" or "[[Blue state|Blue]]", responding to an [[Electoral College]] vote of [[Republican Party|Republican]] and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] presidential candidate, respectively.<ref>It should be noted that the use of "red" to denote a relatively conservative party, and blue a relatively liberal one, is the exact opposite of the color scheme used in European countries, where red denotes a left-leaning party and blue a right-leaning one.</ref>; mixing red and blue in the color pattern yields purple. In this scheme, very close states are colored purple until the final vote tally is finished. In reality, most states are "purple" if viewed on a per-county basis.<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/ Purple states of America] - a county by county breakdown of presidential elections since 1960.</ref>
* [[Free state]]s
== Composition ==
Blue in local elections, Red in presidential elections:
*[[Montana]]
*[[West Virginia]]
Red in local elections, blue in presidential elections:
*[[Wisconsin]]
*[[Maine]]
*[[Nevada]]
Others:
*[[Ohio]]
*[[Pennsylvania]]
*[[Florida]]
==See also==
* [[Blue Dog Democrat]]
* [[Gun control]] of the Purple States
* [[Blue state]]s or [[Essay:Free States Movement#Naughty State List|Unfree states]] of [[Big Government]]-[[Welfare state]]-[[Nanny state]]-[[Statist]]-[[Police state]]
* [[Essay:Free States Movement|Free States Movement]]
* [[Strategic relocation]]: [[Vote with your feet]]
* [[Strategic relocation]]: [[Vote with your feet]]
* [[American Redoubt]] - [[Free State Wyoming]] - [[Free State Project]]
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