Talk:Redshift (disambiguation)
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The article Redshift quantization has "Redshift" in the title, which means that it should appear in the disambiguation page for "Redshift". Standard procedure and stuff. --Enric Naval (talk) 22:03, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Huh? WP:PTM seems to apply here. It seems very unlikely that someone would use just "redshift" to refer to redshift quantization. Hans Adler 22:15, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Right. I just found WP:PTM and I was going to remove my message here. --Enric Naval (talk) 22:19, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
political use
editThe term 'red shift' is also used to describe the remarkable bias towards Republican (or Blue Dog) candidates of US federal elections whose reported results vary considerably from those indicated by voter exit polls.
This is a significant term because such discrepancies are the scientific basis for claims by (United Nations and other) election observers regarding the "fairness" of non-US elections.
Recent studies have shown that of 450 or so elections this century in which this occurs -- basically since the introduction of electronic voting machines -- almost 100% of the candidates are Republican, hence the term "red".