Top McCain aide says GOP label a “disadvantage”
October 14th, 2008 at 09:59am Pat Cunningham
Steven Schmidt (above), protege of Karl Rove and a senior adviser to John McCain, SAYS the GOP presidential ticket is ”disadvantaged by virtue of having an ‘R’ next to our name on the ballot in an election cycle where there’s a lot of blame at the president, a lot of blame at the Republican party, as the party that’s held the White House for the last eight years.”
That helps explain the trend among Republican congressional candidates toward avoiding or downplaying the party label on their campaign materials, as we see HERE (scroll through this piece for dozens of examples).
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