Democratic Party (United States) but the name "Democratic Party" was eventually settled upon and became the official name in 1844. Members of the party are called "Democrats" or "Dems". The term "Democrat Party" has also been in local use, but has usually been used by opponents since 1952 as a disparaging term. The most common mascot symbol for the party has been the donkey, or jackass. Andrew Jackson's enemies twisted his name to "jackass" as a term of ridicule regarding a stupid and stubborn animal. However, the Democrats liked the common-man implications and picked it up too, therefore the image persisted and evolved. Its
Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union The Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU; (ЛДПСС), "Liberal'no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Sovetskava Soyuza" ("LDPSS") was a political party in the Soviet Union which preceded the modern-day Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). An effectively multi-party system emerged in Soviet Union in the late 1980s in wake of the Gorbachev reforms. In March 1990, Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution, which ensured the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) a monopoly on power, was repealed. This gave room to the rise of other political parties, specifically the LDPSU. In April 1991, the