More significantly, those considered "hard" supporters, people who attend rallies and speeches, dropped, from 48percentt in February 2000 to 31 in July.
In a way, the biggest problem is how hard supporters have tried to make such proposals more popular and any requirement less onerous.
This wryly amused some Singaporeans who have long regarded Lim as a die-hard supporter, as well as a business partner, of Liverpool's great rival, Manchester United.
Mr. Joudeh, a member of the opposition, said his brother was a die-hard supporter of Mr. Assad; Abu Rami said his brothers included an army officer and an active member of the B.S.S.
So Mr. McCain would seem to offer a target a mile wide: a die-hard supporter of failed economic policies who takes his advice from people completely out of touch with the lives of working Americans.
As longtime readers of The Lede may recall, during the dispute over Iran's 2009 presidential election, opposition bloggers noticed that one particularly die-hard supporter of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also appeared again and again and again in photographs of pro-government rallies.
A soccer fan, he is a die-hard supporter of A.C. Milan, his hometown club.
"I have always been a die-hard supporter of Argentina.
I am a die-hard supporter of VC, especially when executed well, which is incredibly hard to do.
A particularly controversial figure who has re-emerged as a die-hard supporter of President Erdoğan is the pan-Turkist mafia boss Sedat Peker.
It's no secret that the government of Qatar, the owner of the Al Jazeera Media Network, is a die-hard supporter of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.
