However, in awarding the Prize to the president, the Committee has risked undermining much of the president's momentum on a number of fronts by focusing supporters and detractors alike not on what he has done, but on what he hasn't.
Egyptian state television also began showing images from Tahrir Square for the first time, focusing on supporters of Mr. Mubarak and scenes of pitched street battles.
Opposition supporters focused on calling for the release of jailed activists, while supporters of President Bashar al-Assad rallied against foreign intervention.
Representative Bob Franks, the Republican, buoyed by signs he was closing the gap, focused on urging supporters to vote.
But suspicion immediately focused on Baath Party supporters, former members of Mr. Hussein's security services and rival Shiite groups.
This week, those stories have focused on dissatisfied supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who were infuriated by the leaked Democratic emails.
But the real intent of those who focused on his supporters was to link him to abusive people he didn't even know.
Critics and supporters focused on the city's plan to provide $650 million in tax-free financing known as Liberty Bonds for the bank, which would be the principal tenant, and its development partner, the Durst Organization.
Supporters focused on the jobs and lower-income housing they said the project would bring to a borough badly in need of both; opponents warned that the project would destroy neighborhoods that had recently made tremendous strides.
Health law supporters focused their spending on national television ad buys: $23.6 million on national broadcast TV and $12.8 million on national cable.
Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Adel – all senior members of the activist group April 6 Youth Movement (A6YM) – were the first secular activists to be sentenced in a crackdown on protesters that previously focused on Islamist supporters of the former president Mohamed Morsi.
