Sentences with phrase «lack of name recognition in»

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

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(This in fact rises to a difference of 12 years if we include the Wilson and Heath governments, where no official Deputy Prime Ministers were named, leaving it to the deputy leader of the party or leader of the House of Commons to claim the role - perhaps, indeed, this difference following a lack of official recognition itself further supports our «finding»!)

Many political operatives and party leaders, assessing the field of potential GOP candidates, have given Kolb short shift because he lacks funds and name recognition in the state's population centers.

If Teachout does better than that, despite her lack of name - recognition and relative lack of resources, she can claim to have tapped into a significant vein of anti-Cuomo sentiment that would not be helpful to Cuomo in any future national endeavor.

Howie Hawkins concedes he lacks one critical attribute in his quest to become governor of New York — name recognition.

Following the implementation of Alaska's 2011 redistricting plan, French announced that he would he would start campaigning in his new district early to overcome a lack of name recognition.

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.

One of Myers» weaknesses identified in the poll, is a lack of name recognition among more than 40 percent of potential voters.

Most boxing fans know the name Roberto Duran, but for someone who's widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time (in addition to holding titles in four different weight classes, he's the only person to beat Sugar Ray Leonard in his prime), Duran lacks the mainstream recognition of fellow boxers like Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and even Leonard himself.