Re: Party abbreviations

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

What exactly does GOP stand for?  "Grossly Organized
Product"?....


--- Richard Chonak <rac@gabrielmass.com> wrote:
> 
> Joe Ross wrote:
> > I've noticed in this election that several TV
> stations and
> > newspapers seem to have a new convention for
> abbreviating the
> > names of the political parties. They were always
> Dem  and Rep.
> > Now a number of newspapers and TV stations
> abbreviate them as
> > Dem and GOP. Anyone know what this is about?
> 
> Here's a guess: the abbreviation "Rep." already has
> a meaning 
> in politics, namely "Representative"; thus avoiding
> "Rep." as
> a party designator may an effort to avoid ambiguity.
> 
> --RC
> 
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