Sentences with phrase «from lack of name recognition»

Both of their Republican challengers, Joe DioGuardi and Jay Townsend continue to suffer from a lack of name recognition, with at least 50 percent of voters saying they do not know enough about either candidate to form an opinion.

The surveys indicate Mr. Schneiderman suffers from a lack of name recognition, though he leads his opponent by 71 points among black voters and 42 points among Latinos.

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He built a staff from scratch and is working to overcome a complete lack of name recognition in a geographically diverse district.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

The belief is that unknown authors with no publishing sales histories are a gamble because the lack of name recognition creates a hurdle that may keep the book from finding its audience — hence the tendency to publish the same famous names over and over again.