But by the 1870s, the Republican party had also begun to use the nickname, calling themselves first the “Gallant Old Party” and then shifting to the “Grand Old Party.” ...

The Republican and Democratic Parties have been around for over a century, and their ideologies have shifted. The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (short for Grand Old Party), was ...

You’ll often hear the Republican Party called “the GOP.” The initialism stands for Grand Old Party, and it’s a nickname ...

(Democrats had used "grand old party" to describe their much-older party in 1859 and 1860.) Some Republican publications experimented with Gallant Old Party in the 1880s, but use of the initials ...

The Republican Party has changed a lot in the past 150 years. But one thing that’s stayed the same is its nickname: the Grand Old Party, or GOP for short. Since the Reconstruction Era that ...

Interestingly though, the Republican Party was certainly not "old" when the GOP acronym came into use. The party was only founded two decades prior in 1854.. According to History Channel writer ...

When eight members of the GOP take the stage Wednesday night at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee for the first Republican Presidential Primary Debate, it will represent the latest in a long chain of ...

In response to “Let’s put our democratic republic before party,” Sept. 26, I too “believe we need a strong two-party system with a Republican Party that once again stands for ...

Local legend says that the "Horace Greeley, Vivus W. Smith and Thurlow Weed made the plans for the Republican Party under" a Syracuse elm tree in 1854.