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Originally Posted by DanaC
Well, whaddayeknow....all this time and I haven't had a clue what 'GOP' stands for :P
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Yeah, that is one you sooner or later have to ask about. There seems no Democratic Party equivalent.
The parties' animal mascots both got started as jabs taken at them by outside parties, in this case political cartoonists of the late nineteenth century, who embodied establishment Republicans as an elephantine lot, and the Democrats as a convocation of jackasses.