True, the 2000 election’s mass coverage of red states, blue states, and Green Party may have oversimplified matters, but the literal blossoming of color in American politics may stick in the lexicon. Triumphant blue-state liberals in Oregon have BlueOregon, and the “dog” coalitions of the Democratic party have gained new currency. Yellow dogs, those old Southern creatures, have largely disappeared from speech, and their Blue Dog opponents are threatened both by the identification of blue with liberalism and by their own inability to compete within a more polarized system. Meanwhile, two competing uses of Green Dog have arisen: progressives fond of the “green” have claimed the term, while at least one wag likes its blend of yellow and blue.