He won re-election against a lesser-known opponent, Lou Guerra, taking 76% of the vote.

The team continues to play a handful of preseason and non-conference games at the gym against lesser-known opponents each year.

Incumbent justices typically have a large advantage over their generally lesser-known opponents.

In the 2003 Ottawa election, she handily defeated two lesser-known opponents.

While some of those victories have come against lesser-known opponents, the number of victories has people taking notice.

So far the recall election has also worked to Ms. Boxer's advantage by making it difficult for lesser-known potential opponents to attract public attention and raise money.

He tried to deny exposure to his lesser-known opponent by refusing to schedule debates until Mr. Forrester began dogging him at campaign appearances - with two podiums in tow.

From the start Stanford, the Pacific-10 runner-up to Arizona, seemed every bit as awed by its surroundings as its lesser-known opponent from the North Atlantic Conference.

But this year the Democratic incumbent appears content thus far to sit on an early lead that public opinion surveys report and leave it up to his lesser-known opponent to make a fight of it.

Mr. Gorton, a Republican attempting a comeback after former Transportation Secretary Brock Adams defeated him in 1986, easily beat two lesser-known Republican opponents.