What was more surprising: how the breakdown between states with more dangerous drivers and safer drivers fell almost completely along the lines of the 2008 McCain-Obama election, with the Republicans again coming up on the short end.
The hottest flame color is white, with the absolute temperature dependent on the fuel/mixture burned. Flame color depends on several factors, the most important typically being blackbody radiation and spectral band emission, with both spectral line emission and spectral line absorption playing smaller roles.
Answer 1: Blue flames come from very hot, complete burning of air and fuel. Orange color comes from cooler spots in the flame where fuel isn't being totally burned and these produce a little bit of soot and smoke. The color of the flame is related to the heat of the flame. Think about the colors of different hot things: the Sun is white or yellow, a hot stove is red, a camp-fire is orange, and a gas flame is usually blue. These colors come from different kinds of a light and different places in the electromagnetic spectrum.