It would be daunting in a state with even numbers of Republicans and Democrats, if only because Attorney General Greg Abbott had a breathtaking head start, reaching midyear with $21 million in the bank.
Mr. Cuomo is taking office at a time when the state faces daunting problems and the public expresses little confidence that its political leaders can solve them.
The plan would likely balloon the already daunting $4.6 billion-plus state deficit, however.
In one of the most extreme proposals, a legislative committee in Illinois, daunted by the state's estimated $80 billion pension shortfall, voted to have state workers either contribute 17 percent of their pay toward their pensions or accept less generous pension benefits.
Facing one of the toughest stretches of his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump on Thursday acknowledged in unusually candid terms that he faced daunting hurdles in crucial states, as he swung wildly at Hillary Clinton to try to blunt her questions about his fitness to serve in the Oval Office.
Redrawing legislative districts in the country's most populous state is clearly daunting.
I understand the case for states' rights in this arena, but the prospect of a myriad of different state rules is daunting and has the potential to reduce the efficiency of the massive US marketplace.
The numbers are daunting: President Obama lost the state by 16 points in November.
Such an outing may be gratifying if not a bit daunting for Mr. Dunham, whose state of mind when he's working is so meditative that, he said, "The only reason I know it happened is I have all these paintings around".
The office's best-known role is attracting productions to the city and smoothing their way through the maze of permits, regulations and logistics that can make filming in the streets, parks and subway of New York seem as daunting as scaling the Empire State Building (unless, of course, you're that certain gorilla).
