Yet Obama succeeded not through division, but through unification: we are, he contended, "not a collection of Red States and Blue States -- We are the United States of America".

奥巴马的胜利不是通过分割，而是通过统合：他的主张就是，我们“不是拼凑在一起的红州与蓝州——我们是团结一致的美利坚合众国（not a collection of Red States and Blue States -- We are the United States of America）”。

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Listening to the attack ads run by the Obama campaign, you had to pinch yourself to remember all that stuff about hope and change from 2008, the words about red states and blue states and working with political enemies in the Grant Park victory speech.

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It is the peculiar mechanics of that institution, designed for a different age, that leave us divided into red states, blue states and swing states.

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"The red states have turned redder, while the blue states have turned purple, " Mehlman said, using a short-hand reference to states Bush carried as red and states Al Gore carried as blue.

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