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The Democratic Party of the US has in the past strongly supported big government, but under President Bill Clinton it took heed of the popularity of the Republican Party’s stance advocating less paternalism and smaller government.
But in 2017, there is renewed hope for the European project, owing to Emmanuel Macron’s election as president of France, and electoral defeats for populists in the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany, as well as Trump’s plunging popularity at home.
Current polls show that the PiS’s popularity has risen to around 40% – more than twice that of the previous ruling party, Civic Platform.
With the popularity of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin – and French rightist forces more broadly – in steep decline, a “no” vote could have tipped the public against ratification.
One of the secrets of Trump's popularity is that he flaunts his supposed great wealth.
In 2000, one of Mr. Tung's political aides called on the president of the prestigious University of Hong Kong to express concern over a faculty member's opinion polls, which consistently recorded Mr. Tung's declining popularity.
But, in view of her immense popularity at home, including within her own party, Merkel is underestimating the options at her disposal.
This explains why, with more than half of his term left, the man who led a popular movement to unseat former President Alberto Fujimori holds a mere 7% popularity rating today - the lowest ranking of any Peruvian leader since 1980, when democracy was re-established.
Borobio, who organized the presidential advertising campaigns for both Fujimori and Toledo, declared from exile in Chile that two of Toledo's brothers had secretly hired him to help "slow down the president's fall from popularity, improve his public image, and raise his ratings."
But opinion polls continue to show a huge drop in Toledo's popularity, and no one believes that he will make it to the end of his term in 2006.
Given General Musharraf's diminishing domestic popularity, some fear for his survival.
Central bankers nowadays enjoy the popularity of rock stars, and deservedly so: their response to the difficult and uncertain environment during and after the financial crisis has been largely impeccable.
These new signs of economic vigor have strengthened Uribe’s popularity.
Sarkozy, who has never stopped viewing himself as the savior that France urgently needs, seems to believe that Hollande’s plummeting popularity must mean that his fellow citizens are ready for his return to the center stage.
But there is one more factor fueling Juppé’s popularity: the specter of the socially conservative, economically protectionist National Front, which is trying to capitalize on widespread rejection of the French political establishment to consolidate its political foothold.
But Juppé’s surging popularity is a reassuring sign that the French have not given up on reason and hope.
In fact, it may turn out to be anything but, with serious consequences for France itself and for hopes of a revival of the EU’s popularity.
Lula leaves office with astonishing popularity for a two-term Latin American president.
Thus, Royal’s program is her popularity.
In the absence of growth, Putin has relied on foreign policy to shore up his domestic popularity.
Also, potential politicians have never been able really to measure their popularity in democratic contests.
For several years after WWII’s end, Pius XII enjoyed great popularity, even within the Jewish community.
Despite its many successes since 1990, and the high popularity of the current president (Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first female chief executive), time is taking a toll.
Eurasianism, which was marginal in the 1990s, has gained considerable popularity in recent years by contributing to the formation of the so-called Izborsky Club, which unites the Russian far right.
Liberal democracy cannot be reduced to a popularity contest.
Amazingly, many Latin America leaders fail to make the connection between reducing poverty and their own popularity.
But Lula’s popularity reflects his political skill as much as the success of his social and economic program.
But popularity has so far not spelled populism, at least to the degree that future social and economic development is jeopardized.
Fearing short-term damage to their popularity, politicians – even those who understand the long-term implications of their failure to act – are wary of helping Roma.
Not only do the remarks of French leaders about recreating a multi-polar world arouse alarm, but recent public opinion polls show a decline in the popularity of the US among Europeans and a desire for more independent policies.
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