Is blue the new red?
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Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, was on Face the Nation this morning and something didn't seem quite right. After nearly 30 years of a steady diet of red power ties on Sunday morning talk shows, there he was in a power blue tie.
Then I realized, it's not an accident. Check the lineup from Friday's Obama news conference:
And I can't quite tell from this picture of Friday's news conference by Mark Ritchie, Minnesota's Secretary of State, on Mary Lahammer's excellent blog, but from a distance, isn't that a bluish tie?
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Ritchie popped up on KSTP today on Tom Hauser's show (which I believe is taped) and we have not one, but two power blues.
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On Meet the Press, meanwhile, House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn was sending a bipartisan message.
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Perhaps last week's election was the first part of the men's department stimulus package.
Update Mon. 11/10 4:35 p.m. - President-elect Obama met President Bush at the White House today, and injected new life into the blue-tie theory.
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(Washington photos via Getty Images)
