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This is a partial list of symbols and labels used by political parties, groups or movements around the world. Some symbols are associated with one or more worldwide ideologies and used by many parties that support a particular ideology. Others are region or country-specific.
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.
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". [4] [3] [2] In some regions, the two parties may be associated with other symbols, such as a star and bald eagle ...
The donkey is a common symbol of the Democratic Party of the United States, originating in the 1830s and became popularised from a cartoon by Thomas Nast of Harper's Weekly in 1870. [25] The bray of the donkey may be used as a simile for loud and foolish speech in political mockery. [26] [27] For example, [28]
Democratic Party donkey (although the donkey was associated with the Democrats as early as 1837, Nast popularized the representation [80]) Tammany Hall tiger, a symbol of Boss Tweed's political machine; Uncle Sam, a lanky avuncular personification of the United States (first drawn in the 1830s; Nast and John Tenniel added the goatee)
Political colours are colours used to represent a political ideology, movement or party, either officially or unofficially. [1] They represent the intersection of colour symbolism and political symbolism .
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 ...
The donkey is the unofficial election symbol of the Democratic Party. Democratic Party One of the two major contemporary political parties in the two-party system of the United States, along with its main rival, the Republican Party.