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Donkey and Elephant Symbols
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In politics, a donkey represents republicans while an elephant is for democrats (or the other way around
Cartoonist Thomas Nast is the reason. The donkey represents braying fools and the elephant represents a confused behemoth.
They didn't pick these labels – they got stuck with them! Their origin as symbols for the parties is attributed to a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, who used the donkey "Third Term Panic" by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, 1874...
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First off, obviously no one told the historic Republican party, "Guys. Look. There are NO elephants in America. Except.....at the er...zoo."
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Newspapers begun using them to represent the parties and then the parties themselves adopted them as their mascots.
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The traditional mascot of the Republican party is the elephant. A political cartoon by Thomas Nast, published in Harper's MORE
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Thomas Nast created the donkey and elephant as permanent party symbols. ChaCha for more!
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Origins for these 2 symbols are attributed to political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who used the donkey and elephant in his cartoons.
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The now-famous Democratic donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign.His opponents MORE
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The Donkey— Presidential candidate Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat ever to be associated with the donkey symbol. His more
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