TITLE: Probability of good colorings in randomly-colored graphs
QUESTION [8 upvotes]: Each vertex in a graph is randomly and independently colored either red or blue with equal probability. 
A coloring is called $r$-good, for some fraction $r\in[0,1]$, if at least a fraction $r$ of the edges touch at least one red vertex. 
Define $p(G,r)$ as the probability that a graph $G$ is $r$-good. Obviously $p(G,r)$ is decreasing with $r$.
What is the largest $r$ such that $p(G,r)>1/2$ for all finite graphs $G$?
There is an upper bound of $2/3$ (as noted by Kevin P. Costello) and a lower bound of $1/2$.

For the upper bound, let $G$ be the clique with $3$ vertices. It has eight different colorings: one is 0-good, three are 2/3-good and four are 1-good. Therefore, $p(G,2/3)= 7/8$, but for every $r>2/3$, $p(G,r)\leq 1/2$.
For the lower bound, consider an arbitrary graph $G$. For every coloring of $G$, either it or its opposite colorng is $1/2$-good; therefore $p(G,1/2)\geq 1/2$. To prove that $p(G,1/2)>1/2$, it is sufficient to prove the existence of a coloring that both it and its opposite are $1/2$-good. To construct such a coloring, assign a unique number to each vertex of $G$, and assign to each edge $(u,v)$ the number $(u+v)/2$. Let $D$ be the median of all edges' numbers. Color all vertices smaller than $D$ red and all other vertices blue. Both this coloring and its opposite are $1/2$-good. Hence $p(G,1/2)>1/2$.

Intuitively, the 3-clique seems to be the worst case, since when there are many vertices, the expected number of good edges is $3/4$. So my conjecture is that the real value is 2/3. In other words:
Conjecture. For every finite graph $G$, $p(G,2/3)>1/2$.
Is this true? Alternatively, can you prove tighter bounds?

REPLY [4 votes]: For $r > 1/2$, consider the star graph $K_{1,n}$ for large $n$.  Half of the time, the central vertex will be red, and the graph will certainly be $r$-good.  The other half of the time, the central vertex will be blue, and the graph will be $r$-good only if a fraction $r$ of the other vertices are red.  The probability of this event approaches $0$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$.  So the probability of a large star graph being $r$-good (for $r > 1/2$) is only slightly greater than $1/2$.
You have defined $p(r)$ to be the smallest probability that a graph is $r$-good.  In this case, there may not be a smallest probability; the probabilities approach a limit of $1/2$ (unless of course there is some other graph I have not considered which has a smaller probability of being $r$-good).  So, if it is fair to alter the statement of the question to define $p(r)$ as the infimum of all such probabilities, then $p(r) \leq 1/2$ for all $r > 1/2$.