Sentences with phrase «with little name recognition»

The councilman would enter the race with little name recognition and — despite his liberal social stances — a tremendous disadvantage as a Republican candidate in a deep - blue city.

He's from upstate, which is much less populated than New York City and its surrounding suburbs, and he's a Republican in a blue state with little name recognition outside his district.

From the get - go, the candidate faced an uphill battle as a political - unknown with little name recognition facing an incumbent mayor.

He changed his mind when GOP leaders statewide began urging to him reconsider, saying he was a more viable candidate than DeFrancisco, a veteran lawmaker with little name recognition beyond Syracuse and Albany.

She was running with a cash disadvantage, in a GOP - gerrymandered district, with little name recognition and a hard - to - pronounce name.

Teachout in 2014 challenged Cuomo from the left, mounting an unlikely bid for the party's nomination with little name recognition.

He's a Republican in a blue state with little name recognition outside his district.

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The inside cover has little pockets where the animals live, each one with their name on the front to teach word recognition.

With all the hypotheses circulating around town we've all managed to miss one little thing: With every possible candidate in north Queens comfortable and safe in their seats, there's only one viable candidate that has enough political clout and name recognition to battle the 800 pound gorilla that is Tony Avella.

The U.S. uses a weak party system: candidates can run under a party's name with little or no support or recognition from that party.

Three men, three women, none of them household names to local Conservatives, all with little or no recognition factor to anyone other than dedicated followers of stories about candidate selection nationwide.

Mr. de Blasio made personal appeals for Mr. Smitherman at a megachurch in East New York and at a subway station yesterday, but the mayor — treated like a celebrity in those corridors — could do little to move the needle against an incumbent with high name recognition and a power base that has yet to erode.

With limited campaign funds and little name recognition, Teachout on Monday tried to smoke out Cuomo by going after his running mate, former US Rep. Kathy Hochul.

Farley starts with little statewide name recognition in a heavily blue state that has not elected a Republican since George Pataki was elected to a third term as governor in 2002.

With little money and nonexistent name recognition, Ms. Teachout wasn't expected to win any sizable share of the vote against the incumbent governor.

We began with little money, power or name recognition, yet we had other, less tangible advantages.

The mayoral election fight of 2017 may be slowly gearing up, with Mayor Bill de Blasio facing his stiffest challenge so far from a Republican real estate developer with deep pockets but little name recognition among New Yorkers.

Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor now running for Congress, ran for governor in 2014 on a progressive platform with little money and name recognition while managing to rack up more than 30 percent of the vote against Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

So, although nothing is official yet, it sounds like they have opted for someone with a little more name recognition and acting ability in Jeremy Renner.

However, he is probably still the best part of the film, with Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine, Bad News Bears) lending not much more than name recognition to his not - terribly - demanding role as coach Dick Vermeil.

Dashlane: This password manager is a little newer, but what they lack in name recognition they make up for with great features and slick apps for almost every platform — Windows, OS X, iPhone, iPad, and Android.