All politicians know what a purple state looks like.

"Louisiana has always been a swing state, a purple state that's both blue and red.

But she noted that there was a reason some commentators call Pennsylvania - a state that is neither red nor blue - a purple state.

When the presidential election results are parsed, New York, like much of the nation, is more a purple state than a bright red or blue one.

Others argued that Ritter would win more votes in the "purple state" of Colorado, as opposed to Republican opponents.

As a Jet who grew up in western Pennsylvania and played for Pitt, he is, in effect, the purple state in this equation.

A purple state refers to a swing state where both Democratic and Republican candidates receive strong support without an overwhelming majority of support for either party.

Purple state, so named because purple is the combination of the colors red and blue, which are used to represent Republican- and Democratic-majority states, respectively.

In United States politics, a purple state is a state equally balanced between Republicans (currently symbolized by red) and Democrats (currently symbolized as blue).

This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul.

If just one "purple" state (like Ohio, Florida or Wisconsin) switched to the new system, no candidate could ignore the national popular vote, just as candidates cannot ignore any single purple state now.

In United States presidential politics, a swing state (also, battleground state or purple state) is a state in which no single candidate or party has overwhelming support in securing that state's electoral college votes.

Imagine that the superposition of a state that can be mentally labeled as blue and another state that can be mentally labeled as red will then appear (in imagination, of course) as a purple state.