is there a Dem equivalent of "GOP"?

[arcane1]

:shrug:

seems like every time I read a news story about Repubes, especially when it's about Congress, they always use GOP to refer to them, and then use Democrats to refer to the Dems...

WTF is up with that?

[DoveTurnedHawk]

1. Closest Analog Is "DNC"

But that's not an exact match.

DTH

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. GOP

refers to a nickname for the Republicans-Grand Old Party, which is ironic since its only been around since 1854, and the Democrats were there with Thomas Jefferson. Anyway, Republicans got this moniker after the Civil War, when they basically ran things (and these are the bad old days Bush wants to bring back). This was an ironic title, and a take-off on the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union veteran's group that had a certain amount of political sway back then.

[arcane1]

3. exactly

so they get referenced as "grand" all the time, and we get what?

nothing :(

[UrbScotty]

9. Let's ask the "liberal" media why that is. (nt)

[Telly Savalas]

11. It's still easier to type than "Republican".

That's why I use "GOP" a fair share.

[William769]

4. GOP?

Greedy old pigs. Works for me!

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. the DLC is beginning to look more like the GOP...

every day. But that doesn't really answer your question...but it needed to be said :-)

[William769]

6. & people wonder why Democrats are in such disarray.

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. We can't even get everyone in the party...

to vote against Bolton, and that's a no-brainer...some Dems are making me angry tonight

[Wapsie B]

18. That was planned IMHO.

Party infiltrators from the gop.

[In Truth We Trust]

8. Yes, it is: DINO

[GirlinContempt]

10. BPF?

Bright Party of the Future? :P

[arcane1]

12. I can live with that

can we get the damned media to start using it too? :P

[GirlinContempt]

13. Can try

[leftofthedial]

14. some around here would say that Dems ARE the equivalent of the GOP

[Kire]

15. Yellow Dogs?

not really sure, but that's my guess

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. It's very handy in Minnesota, because the offiicial name of the

Democratic party here is Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, based on the fact that the Democrats and the Farmer-Labor party merged in the 1940s.

So the media here refer to the parties as the GOP and the DFL. When I lived outside Minnesota for the first time, I was surprised to find that no one knew what "DFL" meant.

[rasputin1952]

17. GOP...

God's Obnoxious Pinheads ?...:evilgrin