A Quick Video Primer Explaining How Republicans and Democrats Got Their Symbolic Animals
by Lori Dorn from Laughing Squid on (#1MYH3)
In the spirit of the upcoming Presidential election, National Geographic has created a short video primer that explains why Republicans are represented by elephants and Democrats by donkeys.
The Republican elephant was popularized in the political cartoons of Thomas Nast "The Democrat donkey was introduced decades before to insult Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Jackson. Jackson found it funny and embraced it.