# Why blue for Gore, red for Bush?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 11, 2000, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-blue-for-gore-red-for-bush/40823 "2000-11-11T22:40:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-blue-for-gore-red-for-bush/40823/21 "2000-11-14T00:50:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \*  
> \*\*Interestingly enough…or maybe not…Gore wore a red necktie to the first debate and blue for the second two, Mallethead wore red throughout. \*\*

Dubya does not manufacture crank, doesn’t drive a camaro, doesn’t have a molester mustache and his hair isn’t even long in the back… oh, not _mullethead_, sorry.

Either way this country gets what it deserves, an undisciplined frat boy or a technocrat who sued his way into the white house.

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