Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121026:21:55:00
An exec be tif named gordon manning. they wanted to make it more visual and make it not just about the numbers. when they picked the colors, they wanted to go by the rosettes that the british party used and so they went red for the democrats making it sync up with the labor party and blue for republicans. when the other networks basically imitated the map and did maps of their own, they changed it. >> okay. >> so you were seeing a new consistency across the networks. it was finally made consistent in 1996. red for republicans, blue for democrats. >> okay. got to go. steve, great book. election...
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