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The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, whose sympathies lean strongly donkward, assumes 2011 will be a repeat of 1995:Source: The Best of the Web, by James Taranto. Leaning donkward means leaning to the Democratic Party. Wikipedia says this about the party's mascot symbol:
The most common mascot symbol for the party is the donkey. According to the Democratic National Committee, the party itself never officially adopted this symbol but has made use of it.[100] They say that Andrew Jackson's opponents had labeled him a jackass during the intense mudslinging that occurred during the presidential race of 1828. A political cartoon titled "A Modern Balaam and his Ass" depicting Jackson riding and directing a donkey (representing the Democratic Party) was published in 1837. A political cartoon by Thomas Nast in an 1870 edition of Harper's Weekly revived the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party. Cartoonists followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats, and the elephant to represent the Republicans.
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