Complex sentence: Throughout his campaign, many commentators suggested that McCotter's lack of name recognition nationwide would hamper his chances of winning the nomination, receiving less than one percent in opinion polls and coming in last place in the August 2011 Ames Straw Poll.
Split into simpler sentences: Throughout his campaign, many commentators suggested that McCotter's lack of name recognition nationwide would hamper his chances of winning the nomination. In opinion polls that included McCotter, he received less than one percent and he came in last place in the August 2011 Ames Straw Poll.