Not all U.S. states receive equal attention from presidential candidates and political parties. The spotlight is primarily on swing states, battleground states, or purple states.

Votes tallied on Election Day tend to favor Republicans in a phenomenon known as the "red mirage," while a so-called blue ...

The terms "red state" and "blue state" emerged during the 2000 U.S. presidential election to describe states that ...

But the state’s most populous places, whether red, purple or blue, barely moved at all, ensuring that any shift in the ...

“We’ve shown the country that Georgia remains a red state, with big wins up and down the ticket,” said state House Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones, R-Milton. “We will take this mandate from the voters ...

Of the 10 states with abortion rights on the ballot, seven states, including several that supported Donald Trump, voted to ...

The wins were expected. Delaware hasn’t had a Republican governor in more than 30 years, a Republican Senator in more than 20 ...

A big lead at some point on election night doesn’t always mean a candidate will win. That’s because different places and types of votes get counted at different speeds.

Wisconsin is heavily white, blue-collar and rural. In most states, those traits add up to a red state. But not here.

Demographically speaking, you would expect this to be a red state, not an almost perfectly purple ... voting Democratic for president. Nowhere in America was there a greater concentration of blue ...