After a visit to the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum, Mark Krikorian notes a bit of evidence of leftist revisionism:

Amidst the big-picture stuff, two things at the Ford museum stuck out: The map showing the outcome of the 1976 election had the red and blue states as they're supposed to be — the Democrats in red and the Republicans in blue. Has anyone tried to dig out which graphic artist or art director at one of the networks decided to change this in 2000? It has to have been a considered decision by a leftie who didn't think the Democrats should be portrayed as the reds, but I've never seen the name(s) of the specific person or persons responsible.

I would guess it was many journalists, not just one — that reporters, editors, and graphic artists at different media outlets decided in 2000 that they were sick of their association with their historical color — red. It was apparently time to hang it on the "right wing", just as they'd done with most of their other failed positions and symbols. I was kind of sad to see conservatives so quickly take up the color of socialism as their own.