What is the symbol for the Democratic Party and the republican?

Answer 1

The Republican elephant was created by cartoonist Thomas Nast and appeared in_Harper's Weekly_, Nov. 7, 1874. Before then, an 1860 issue of _Railsplitter_ and an 1872 _Harper's Weekly_ also had Cartoons connecting Republicans with elephants. In New York, also in 1874, there was an untrue story written as a hoax by the _New York Herald_ saying that the animals of the Central Park Zoo had broken loose and were running wild in Central Park. The same Thomas Nast used the jackass in a cartoon using it to depict the _Herald_. This ultimately shifted to represent the Democratic party and the name changed to donkey. An alternate story on the Democratic donkey is that Andrew Jackson was the first candidate in the Democratic party and when he ran fror re-election he was called a "Jackass". Jackson actually liked that so much he adopted the donkey or jackass as the symbol for the Democratic Party. This is from The History Channel's series "The Presidents" Add-on by Kiddo2000: At http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0881985.html , you can find pictures of them. If the link expires, go to Yahoo! pictures and search "Democratic and Republican symbols". You should get good results.