The following are the current most viewed articles on Wikipedia within Wikipedia's Political metaphors category. Think of it as a What's Hot list for Political metaphors. More info »

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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Witch-hunt	2,725
2	Iron Curtain	2,459
3	Astroturfing	2,108
4	Grassroots	1,761
5	Puppet state	1,259
6	Bandwagon effect	1,120
7	Domino theory	807
8	Paper tiger	458
9	Character assassination	337
10	Blank cheque	332
11	Time bomb	229
12	Salad bowl (cultural idea)	206
13	Cordon sanitaire	150
14	Third rail (metaphor)	149
15	Saber noise	84
16	List of political metaphors	68
17	Razor gang	54
18	Riding coattails	36
19	Trigger law	13
20	Toy parliament	9
21	Political metaphors	less than 5 views

Subcategories

• Political metaphors referring to people

Parent categories

• Metaphors by type
• Political terms

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