As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the donkey the Democratic Party. What is less well known is how the animals came to ...

The Republican elephant made its lumbering debut in an unflattering cartoon on November 7th 1874, in “The Third-Term Panic”. In it, a donkey (“N.Y. Herald”, a democratic newspaper ...

Over time, the donkey became more broadly associated with the Democratic Party. The elephant became linked to the Republican Party largely due to the work of political cartoonist Thomas Nast ...

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in ... Here's how each symbol came to be associated with the Democratic and Republican parties: Origins: The donkey first became associated with ...

The animal logos most commonly used as symbols of the US political parties, originated as 19th century symbols of ridicule. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Politics The animal logos most ...

A donkey wearing a lion’s skin representing “Caesarism” frightens away an elephant labeled as the “Republican vote,” nearly falling into the trap of claims by Democratic-leaning Southern ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...

Republicans adopted the elephant as their official symbol, "and although the Democrats have yet to declare ... one of their rallies before spotting a donkey," CNN reported. "It's a little weird ...

Much like the donkey, the elephant conveys the qualities ... news networks adopted a standardized map: red for Republican states, blue for Democratic ones. The weeks-long media frenzy surrounding ...