It portrays "a more moderate and centrist image" than displayed in the campaign, Mr. Gillespie said.
By staying above the fray, Obama preserved his image as a centrist — but at considerable cost.
Both parties have tried hard to project a centrist image while tranquilizing their activists.
That might help his centrist image but it could cost his coalition badly needed leftist votes in some regions.
Try as they might to present a centrist image for Mitt Romney's sake, social issue zealots running on the Republican ticket can't seem to contain themselves.
Mr. Bush must find a way, both for the big-state primaries and, if nominated, for the general election, to reclaim his inclusive, centrist image.
In early 1989 Spain's conservatives again tried to present a more centrist image to the increasingly leftist Spanish population and to disassociate themselves from their Francoist heritage, incorporating the small centrist Liberal Party and adopting a new name, the Popular Party PPPopular Party PP
After coming back to Congress in 2003, Mr Cooper rehabiliated his image as a centrist "Blue Dog" Democrat the name for fiscally conservative Democrats who were "choked blue" and ignored by their liberal leaders.The comeback is faltering now.
In 1979 at its national congress, the rightist party was rechristened the Popular Coalition Coalición Popularr) and attempted to cultivate a more centrist image, emphasizing both traditional values such as law and order and economic liberalism as well as support for democracy.
This will give the victor time to prepare for what is likely to be a long inquest over how the party conducted itself in coalition, and whether it was right to project a centrist image in the general election.
