In a bid to get round his recalcitrant assembly members, he has also formed a political party that he hopes will thrive on his personal popularity with voters.In the car-manufacturing city of Nagoya, Takashi Kawamura, a mayor with a taste for tropical shirts, enjoys strong popularity for trying to halve assembly-members' salaries to pay for a city tax cut.
Thanks to Lula's strong popularity and a rather quiet campaign from Mr Serra, she enjoys a comfortable edge in the polls even though she has never before run for political office.
In retail stores in India, it is enjoying strong popularity as a self-help book for Hindu nationalists.
A favorable outcome will certainly boost Obama's strong popularity on the streets of Iran.
Members must choose among three of the politically cautious candidates of the type they have favored in the past -- but who appear to have lost credit with the public -- and an increasingly bold party renegade who has won strong popularity in part by rejecting party traditions and long-held economic policies.
Mr. Bush could be helped by a variety of factors, one of which is the strong popularity in some Northwestern cities of Mr. Nader, who drew 10,000 people to a rally in Portland, Ore., recently and who, most analysts say, draws many more left-leaning voters from Mr. Gore than he does from Mr. Bush.
With his strong popularity in Utah, he's considered a shoo-in to take the seat of Orrin Hatch, who's retiring after working since 1977 as the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history.
Presley had first performed "Heartbreak Hotel" during a live show in December 1955 during a tour of the Louisiana Hayride, but the song gained strong popularity after his appearance on Stage Show in March 1956.
Despite the strong popularity of operationist behaviorism in certain quarters, it never commanded a complete consensus even in American psychology.
