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.
The part of the flame closest to the candle or the wood will usually be white, since the temperature is usually greatest near the fuel source. The farther away from the fuel source that the flame reaches, temperature decreases, leading to the bulk of a flame often being orange while the tip is red. There's one other color you may have seen appear in flames on a regular basis: blue.