Here you have "The Duchess & Lulu"  at Fantasy Fest in Key West portraying  the political symbols for the Republicans and the Democrats, the Elephant and the Jackass. 

Their origin as symbols for the parties is attributed to a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, who used the donkey and the elephant in cartoons drawn for Harper's Weekly in the 1870's. 

Republicans view the elephant emblem as a sign of strength and intelligence, while their opponents portrayed it as a timid and clumsy behemoth. Democrats seized the "jackass" label, and transformed it into a clever and courageous donkey.

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