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In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition. The concept is named after ultrasonic dog whistles , which are audible to dogs but not humans.
In his 1920 run for one of Georgia's seats in the United States Senate, Thomas E. Watson was denounced by the Valdosta Times newspaper as a "Democrat in name only.". [3] When William DeWitt Mitchell was appointed United States Attorney General in 1928 by President Herbert Hoover, the Chicago Tribune described Mitchell as a "Democrat in name only," arguing that "his record of the last few years ...
The Carolina Dog's wildness and its ginger coat led to its being called a "yaller dog", which in turn may have led to the expression "yellow dog Democrat". [1]Yellow dog Democrats is a political term that was applied to voters in the Southern United States who voted solely for candidates who represented the Democratic Party.
Nobody is singing the former president's praises over his terrible debate performance, but some people are turning his words into song.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the Democratic nominee for vice president, said in a video Monday with the popular WeRateDogs account that while he believes “politics can sometimes bring out the ...
The Blue Dog Coalition, commonly known as the Blue Dogs or Blue Dog Democrats, is a caucus of moderate members from the Democratic Party in the United States House of Representatives. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The caucus was founded as a group of conservative Democrats in 1995 in response to defeats in the 1994 elections .
My dog has four legs. Therefore, my dog is a cat. This invalid form of argument, labeled AAA-2 among syllogisms, commits the fallacy of the undistributed middle: it says nothing about all things having four legs (the middle term) and thus the conclusion does not logically follow from the premises, even if the premises are true. The politician's ...