Political donations are more likely to come from wealthy people. A higher proportion of wealthier people vote in elections.
The Federalist Party and its nationalist viewpoints were fiercely opposed by the Jefferson's Republicans, who can be traced all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. As a result of Andrew Jackson's well-liked position of "let the people rule," the Democrats chose the donkey as their emblem. In 1848, the Democratic National Committee was formally established. During the civil war a gap emerged within the party between those who supported slavery and those who opposed it. Due to this severe rift, the Democratic party that exists today was born. The Republican Party was founded right before the Civil War as a result of its long-standing support for the abolition of slavery. They were a tiny third party that put forth John C. Freemont's presidential nomination in 1856. When their candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected as President of the United States in 1860, they established themselves as a legitimate political force. Lincoln's leadership throughout the war, notably his initiatives to permanently abolish slavery, contributed to the Republican Party's emergence as a significant force in American politics. They decided on the elephant as its emblem in 1874 after seeing a cartoon of the new party as an elephant in Harpers Weekly.
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