To all Hillary Clinton Delegates
Thank you for your support of Hillary Clinton and for serving as a delegate.
I am asking for you to support me for delegate to the Democratic National Convention by voting for The Virginia Blue Slate this weekend at the Virginia State Convention. I have worked for Hillary through the primaries by serving as an advocate for her campaign. As a member of her Virginia committee and Norfolk campaign coordinator, I have spent countless hours organizing phone banks, making calls, and trying to get others involved. I would be honored to represent her at the Convention in Denver.
We have given all we can for Hillary. Representing her at the Convention would be the culmination of our hard work!
The Virginia Blue Slate is a diverse slate comprised of great Hillary supporters from across the state. I know there are more great Hillary supporters than there are delegate positions, but I hope you will support my candidacy by voting for The Virginia Blue Slate.
I look forward to seeing you in Hampton this weekend!
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
who else is on the slate?
Didn’t Clinton concede on the 7th?
jonolan – that has nothing to do with the convention. Those who signed up as Clinton delegates will still caucus as such.
linda b – the list includes Hillary supporters from throughout the state. (But aren’t you an Obama delegate?)
Yes I am, from the 3rd District (to Denver and state).
I know some of my Clinton friends were trying to be a National Delegate at state. I just wondered if they were on your slate.
Good luck to you on Saturday.
Clinton may have conceded, but the votes are not counted yet. Obama can still step in it, and the supers can still give it to Clinton if he does.
I have received permission from Susan Rowland to say that she is a member of The Virginia Blue slate. Susan is from Chesapeake and the only other person on the slate from Hampton Roads. She is a PLEO delegate candidate.
Just out of curiousity, why did the Democrats co-opt BLUE as their color? Apparently, prior to the 1992 election, the Republican color was BLUE (as in blue-blooded American), and the Democratic color was RED, as in the Red Revolution.
Did all the media outlets get together and agree to swap colors?
No idea, Mouse.
The blue/red split came out of the map colors the networks used in their 2000 election coverage. It is kind of interesting that Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, one of the better historical data sites, has the colors reversed.
I suppose it’s also a bit irritating for Republicans, since the U.S. military’s long-standing map convention is to use blue for friendly forces and red for enemy. (As commemorated in Edwin Walker’s John Birch Society-based “Pro Blue” indoctrination program for the soldiers under his command in early 1960s Germany, my father included.) But you can make of that what you will.
Yes, Randy, but WHY did they make that change in 2000? Prior to the 2000 election, the Republicans were blue and the Democrats were red.
Are you sure there was a change? Here’s a clip from CBS’ 1988 Election Night coverage. Dan Rather mentions in the first three minutes that their map will show Bush states in red and Dukakis in blue.
Scrounging YouTube a bit more, I found CBS still using red for Republicans in 1984, but the colors were reversed in 1972. I haven’t found tape for the other networks yet, so I have no grounds for comparison.
It would be interesting to see if there was a pattern to any of this, and in particular whether the three major networks shifted to a common convention at some point.
That pic is screaming for a caption contest.