Until now, Rodriguez was dogged by the perception that he was a high-priced player who never won the big one and failed in the clutch.
While Elrich has been dogged by a perception that he is anti-business, he has said it's an unfair caricature, adding that he recognized the need for a strong commercial tax base to pay for county services.
The scheme has been dogged by the perception, stemming from the results of the first evaluation in 2005, that Sure Start was hijacked by the middle classes, putting off the poor families it was meant to help.
"We were demanding that people do something really difficult and we didn't put in any development support". The scheme has been dogged by the perception, stemming from the results of the first evaluation in 2005, that Sure Start was hijacked by the middle classes, putting off the poor families it was meant to help.
But NBC has continued to be dogged by the perception that it is underperforming, largely because, until recent months, the network's prime-time programming — still the most high-profile part of the company — remained stuck in last place among the four big broadcast networks.
But NBC has continued to be dogged by the perception that it is underperforming, largely because, until recent months, the network's prime-time programming – still the most high-profile part of the company – remained stuck in last place among the four big broadcast networks.
For the whole of the 1990s and the first half of the noughties, Dannii bumped along as a minor pop star, accruing a respectable string of top 20 hits but always, as her friend Kathy Lette put it, dogged by "this perception that she was the B-side to Kylie's A-side".
In this regard, few had more to prove than Herman Cain, who has run a close second in most polls but continues to be dogged by the perception that he has an underwhelming interest in national security matters.
That perception had dogged Mr. Obama for much of the year since gains by Republicans in the 2010 midterm elections gave them control of the House and a share of power in Washington.
But, in that same period, she and her husband have been dogged by a general perception that they don't always play by the rules and, in the most negative reading, don't think the rules apply to them.
