States that have gone to both a Democrat and a Republican candidate from 1996-2008 Quiz

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Purple States Quiz

by tobley

Created Sep 12, 2012 in History
Featured Nov 6, 2012
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	Gillmacs:	Nov 6th, 2012 at 23:08 GMT		5 points
	Doesn't really seem necessary to hide the answers you don't get.

	montylaw:	Nov 6th, 2012 at 23:09 GMT		5 points
	Would really like to know the ones I missed.

	mselby:	Nov 6th, 2012 at 23:14 GMT		6 points
	Oops guys, just a small mistake. Missed answers now display.

	Wren25:	Nov 6th, 2012 at 23:19 GMT		4 points
	I love the term Purple State, I've not come accross it before, though as I know very little about American politics... I just got more than half - from hearing that both candidates were visiting various states and by pure guess work :-)

	Zak6009:	Nov 6th, 2012 at 23:19 GMT		-3 points
	lol I tried and retried just as both things were corrected: First try I missed an answer and it was hidden and they were in random order, and then on my second try I figured "Okay, I'll just type them all alphabetically fast and see which one I missed"... and this time they were appearing IN alphabetical order! Saved a lot of energy.

	mselby:	Nov 6th, 2012 at 23:30 GMT		4 points
	@zak6009 I turned off random answer order briefly, but I think it's a bit trickier if they're turned on.

	cuatrodosocho:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 00:07 GMT		8 points
	Wow. Managed to forget the one in the picture on the front page! Augh.

	Gremlins_Attack:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 00:40 GMT		5 points
	Like that you included the bonus answer.

	hbaker:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 01:31 GMT		1 point
	Ah, another quiz where I type in the three or four answers I'm pretty sure are right, then just start naming the rest of the states as fast as I can. :D

	dcmldcml:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 01:52 GMT		4 points
	Good quiz, but why is Nebraska a bonus answer? It's kind of the ultimate purple state, having gone to both parties in the same election!

	caramba:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 03:33 GMT		1 point
	Just named as many states as I could think of, minus the strongholds. Obviously I can type faster than I thought.

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	Azazello:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 05:20 GMT		-2 points
	@Jdawg1015: Are you from the US? If so, it begs the question, where have you been for the past year and a half?

	Bobman1:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 05:54 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz, but small gripe--please insert the term "presidential" before "candidate." Rather than just random speed typing, I was thinking, okay, who had governors of both partties recently, etc, as well as presidential choices.

	BonnieH:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 11:23 GMT		6 points
	Too much time, really. I only knew about 4 or 5 of these and had plenty of time to just type in random states until I got them all.

	unkpoker:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 13:15 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz - but probably better as a clickable quiz...or with a lot less time...

	AtomicIce:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 14:36 GMT		5 points
	You might want to change the title of the quiz to specify a specific year rather than "last 4 elections" because that definition on Monday is not the same thing today on Wednesday (and would have at least 7 fewer answers today).

	TaliTek:	Nov 7th, 2012 at 17:18 GMT		2 points
	For me, being a Brit, it was more like 'Can you name some states that you know, they won't all work?' :P

	johnnywahoo:	Nov 8th, 2012 at 02:07 GMT		-4 points
	Dang Yankees up in Northern Virginia making us a purple state

	hsox05:	Nov 8th, 2012 at 18:39 GMT		-2 points
	AKA "Name the states that actually have brains enough to think outside of the political party box and vote based on what's best for them. Not who's on their favorite ticket."

	ThereIsBearGum:	Nov 11th, 2012 at 05:29 GMT		2 points
	Hurple and curple rhyme with purple.

	kupfernick:	Nov 13th, 2012 at 02:57 GMT		0 points
	Yet another way to look at geography Try my quiz on Pearl Harbor http://www.sporcle.com/games/kupfernick/cities-and-states-at-pearl-harbor

	gobolts91:	Dec 17th, 2012 at 23:19 GMT		1 point
	@hsox Oh yeah, we in Florida definitely have brains.

	statsqueen:	Jun 13th, 2013 at 00:51 GMT		1 point
	A little more time would have been good