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In politics, a donkey represents republicans while an elephant is for democrats (or the other way around
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What are the two government symbols for the two parties?
The symbols for the two American political party are, the elephant and the donkey, the elephants represent the Republicans and the donkey represents the Democrats.
What are the symbols for democratic and Republican?
Democrats = Donkey Republicans = Elephant
What are the democratic and republicans symbols?
democratic - donkey repulican-elephant
Symbols of democrat and Republican'?
Democrat: Donkey Republican: Elephant
What are the symbols for each of the democratic and Republican?
Republicans - Elephant. Democrat - Donkey
What are the symbols of two political parties?
Republicans are represented by an elephant whereas the Democrats are symbolised by a donkey .
What does the elephant and donkey mean?
The elephant and donkey are symbols of the Republican and Democratic political parties, respectively. The Democratic donkey was first used as a negative comparison against the party, but Democrats used the animal as a strong-willed creature. The Republican elephant is the product of a political cartoon from the 1800s.
How did the Democrats come up with the donkey for their symbol?
Uh, please look at any newspaper. The elephant is the symbol of the REPUBLICAN party! Anyway, look up information about the 19th-century cartoonist Thomas Nast for the story of the elephant and donkey symbols.
Is Obama a donkey or an elephant?
I think you are asking what political party he belongs to, and what is the symbol of that party (these symbols were popularized by political cartoonist Thomas Nast, way back in the 1870s). President Obama is a Democrat, and the symbol of that party is the donkey. Republicans use the elephant as their party's symbol.
What does the elephant and donkey stand for in the congress?
Elephant = Republican Political Party Donkey = Democratic Political Party
What animal stands as a symbol of the republican party -- a donkey or an elephant?
An elephant is the symbol of the republican party. The donkey is the symbol of the democratic party.
The symbol of the Democratic Party is the donkey and the symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant why do they have these symbols and when did this tradition first begin?
The donkey started when Andrew Jackson was running for President in 1882. All of the campainers called hm a jackass (a donkey) so he used that as his symbol. Later a man used that in a cartoon and that is what started the Democratic Symbol.The symbols were invented by Thomas Nast, the 19th century's most persuasive political cartoonist. Why? Only Thomas Nast seems to know.
