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The donkey stuck when Thomas Nast published a political cartoon in "Harper's Weekly" in 1874. The cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic" shows a donkey wearing lion's skin scaring away other animals.
In 1874, Nast also popularized the contrasting use of an elephant to similarly symbolize the Republican Party. [2] [3] The Republican Party has since used an elephant as part of its official branding. While the donkey is widely-used by Democrats as an unofficial mascot, the party's first official logo—adopted in 2010—is an encircled "D".
Cartoonists followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats and the elephant to represent the Republicans. In many states, the logo of the Democratic Party was a rooster, for instance, in Alabama: Logo of the Alabama Democratic Party, 1904–1966 (left) and 1966–1996 (right) [144] [145]
As with most things in politics the Elephants and the Donkeys are pretty similar whether they like to admit it or not. A penchant for sunny skies and sandy beaches is about the same across party ...
Elephant – Asom Gana Parishad , Bahujan Samaj Party (with the exception of the states of Assam and Sikkim where certain state parties use the elephant) Five-pointed star – Mizo National Front ; Farmer ploughing (within square farm) – Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (Chhattisgarh) Flowers and grass – All India Trinamool Congress
Florida Democrats have shown the donkey the door and have adopted as a new mascot the Florida panther – an endangered species. The iconic panther, once reduced to fewer than two dozen in Florida ...
Democrat Party is an epithet and pejorative for the Democratic Party of the United States, [1] [2] [3] often used in a disparaging fashion by the party's opponents. [4] While use of the term started out as non-hostile, it has grown in its negative use since the 1940s, in particular by members of the Republican Party—in party platforms, partisan speeches, and press releases—as well as by ...
Democrats must have known changing their party symbol from a docile donkey to a fierce Florida panther would evoke some condescending snickers from the confident conservative Republicans who have ...