Reputation - failure to meet campaign goals or to generate interest result in a public failure.

It was Brown's first very public failure but she had no regrets about embarking on the project.

Very public failures continue to hang over her.

The school battles have been Giuliani's greatest public failure, although not for the commonly supposed reasons.

Yet the school system has lately suffered a number of embarrassing public failures.

I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.

He was free of the burden of a very public and prominent failure.

Statements you quote show a public failure to differentiate between immigrants and refugees.

He felt he couldn't stop because it would be seen as a public failure.

It brings change and the opportunity for public failure.