Whit Ayres’ comments on NPR regarding the changing electorate: To read the transcript please click here.
Whit Ayres, November 11
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Whit Ayres’ comments in the New York Times regarding Hispanic and younger voters: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, noted that Mr. Romney did better than Mr. McCain among white voters, and won independents by 5 percentage points, all to no avail. “It is patently obvious that unless Republicans do better among nonwhite voters, they will...
Whit Ayres’ comments in National Journal regarding Republicans and the Hispanic vote: “We are in a position now where we have to—through differences in policy, differences in tone, and differences in candidates—reach out [to minorities] in a way we’ve never reached out before,” says veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres. “Or we will not be successful...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the changing electorate in USA Today: “If Romney was going to win, it was by getting a larger and larger share of the white vote,” Ayres says. “At some point, you run out of votes to get that way. A larger-and-larger piece of a smaller-and-smaller share of the pie ultimately becomes...
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Whit Ayres’ comments on Republican appeals to Hispanic voters, in Business Week: Romney is trying to appeal to Hispanics by focusing on discontent about their economic circumstances, which Ayres said is the top issue for them, as it is for voters overall. “Governor Romney has a real opening if he can paint an alternative vision,...
Whit Ayres’s comments on Latino voters in the 2012 election: In addition to the support gap, Republicans face challenges in their messaging to Hispanic voters. At a breakfast meeting with reporters last month, veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayers said the tone of the immigration debate has hurt the party and cautioned that eventual nominee will have to...
Whit Ayres’s comments on Latino voters, Whit Ayres, the founder and President of North Star Opinion Research, a national public opinion research firm, is a Republican consultant who counts many of the party’s leaders as clients. He agrees that doing better among Latino voters is one of the great challenges for Republicans, but he thinks...
Whit Ayres’s comments on Latino voters and the Republican Party: GOP strategist Whit Ayers responded yesterday to a new Fox News poll illustrating the Democratic Party’s significantly higher popularity among Latino voters, calling the process of winning over the demographic “the great challenge of the Republican Party going forward.” “We will do better, in part because...
Whit Ayres’s comments on Latino voters: The first rule for winning the Latino vote is to realize it’s a voter bloc in name only. There is a common ancestral language that binds nationalities, family histories and geographic allegiances. But that’s about it. A recently naturalized Mexican in Los Angeles is more likely to vote Democratic...
