Whit Ayres’ comments in the Hartford Courant on gubernatorial candidates running against the partisan tide:
Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant and pollster based in Washington, D.C., said, “Republicans in blue states need to have a center-right rudder to guide their decision-making, but they cannot be overtly ideological or overtly partisan.
“Doing so is the kiss of death for a candidate running from a minority party in any state,” Ayres said, saying that candidates should instead focus their vision “on essentially bipartisan issues like education, getting the economy going, enhancing the health care system.”
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