We should stop calling them "parties" because none of them are much fun. Elephant and donkey are apt symbols.
Whatever happened to that guy Vermin Supreme? From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2025 11:35 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] OT Political Hmmmm... By SHANE GOLDMACHER The New York Times One longtime Democratic researcher has a technique she leans on when nudging voters to share their deepest, darkest feelings about politics. She asks them to compare America's two major parties to animals. After around 250 focus groups of swing voters, a few patterns have emerged, said the researcher, Anat Shenker-Osorio. Republicans are seen as "apex predators," like lions, tigers and sharks - beasts that take what they want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths: slow, plodding, passive. So Shenker-Osorio perked up earlier this year when a Democratic man in Georgia suggested that a very different kind of animal symbolized his party. "A deer," he said, "in headlights." The man had more to say. "You stand there and you see the car coming, but you're going to stand there and get hit with it anyway."
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