Why is the democratic party in the US have a donkey as a mascot?

Question

what does it mean and where did it come from ? What's the Republican mascot ? What does it mean ?

Answer 1

Elephant are slow and leave a Big pile of mess!

Answer 2

I will give you one guess why they have a donkey as a mascot !!

lol

Answer 3

Andrew Jackson had been labeled a jackass by his opponents during the intense mudslinging that occurred during the presidential race of 1828. A political cartoon depicting Jackson riding and directing a donkey (representing the Democratic Party) was published in 1837.

The traditional mascot of the Republican party is the elephant. A political cartoon by Thomas Nast, published in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874, is considered the first important use of the symbol

Answer 4

I think some newspaper writer thought it up, but i don't remember.

And usually donkeys symbolize stubbornness, so i assume that.

Republicans are elephants... i don't know why.  

Answer 5

Republicans are elephants because most of them represent obesity, stupidity and racism.  lol hehe.  :)

Answer 6

The donkey is when they had Andrew Jackson running, he was referred to as a Jackass. The republican have the elephant, it came from a political cartoon with the elephant smashing the planks of wood from under the democrats. This was mostly because the republicans where founded on antislavery.    

Answer 7

Came from a cartoon printed years ago. Nobody is 100% sure why a donkey and elephant. Some would say that Dem`s are jackasses and Reb`s are slow and scared of mice

Answer 8

The now-famous Democratic donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign. His opponents called him a jackass (a donkey), and Jackson decided to use the image of the strong-willed animal on his campaign posters. Later, cartoonist Thomas Nast used the Democratic donkey in newspaper cartoons and made the symbol famous.

Nast invented another famous symbol—the Republican elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion's skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of those animals, the elephant, was labeled “The Republican Vote.” That's all it took for the elephant to become associated with the Republican Party.

Answer 9

They have a donkey as their mascot because they are a bunch of jackasses.

Italian stallion, are you a moron? Elephants are smart. They don't forget anything, remember? And how are elephants racist?

Nice circumventing the question and proving your real ignorance.

Answer 10

Because democrats are asses. The Republican mascot is the elephant.