American politics is scattered with candidates who catapulted to general election fame by winning hard-fought primaries.

Primary Left Scars Mr. Abrams was all but bound to have a tough time of it this fall, after an extraordinarily hard-fought Democratic primary.

McKeithen seemed bitter that he had to face a strong Republican candidate after struggling through two hard-fought Democratic primaries.

The hard-fought primary was unusual in the new political climate in which President Vladimir V. Putin has began reining in regional governors.

Moreover, Mr. Crowley's name recognition got a significant boost over the summer when she prevailed in a hard-fought Democratic primary.

He mobilized a large conservative constituency to win the hard-fought Republican primaries.

He is still making public appearances, though not as many as in the hard-fought Democratic primary.

He says he will spend heavily on the campaign, organize an army of volunteers and provide something that is a rarity in overwhelmingly Democratic New York City: a hard-fought Republican primary.

Democrats in Texas, as elsewhere, used to pride themselves on their hard-fought primaries.

Filling the Void Most Democrats assume that there will be party strife and hard-fought primaries to fill the power vacuum left by Mr. Cuomo.