The government's tactics appear to have improved its popularity considerably, according to opinion polls.
The plan, which the Conservative party hopes will improve its popularity among working-class voters ahead of the election, could see the flagship housing policy expanded to include all tenants of housing association homes.
Meanwhile, Feedly is now tapping into its community's behavior to improve its search algorithms – recommending feeds based on popularity.
Pro-Kremlin analyst Yevgeny Minchenko said he suspected the campaign paid for the article, but said it would introduce the candidate to a new audience and improve his popularity by a few percentage points.
Starting tomorrow, to improve his popularity President Bush is going to jump up and down on Oprah's couch.
His charming style, his resolute meliorism, his careful excision of anything remotely unpleasant or (for good reasons) to do with sex: these all improved his popularity".
Amid concerns that the French president was trying to distance himself from the US to improve his popularity, Barack Obama was advised that a phone call to him could have a decisive impact.
Updated at 9.01am GMT 8.53am GMT French GDP falls 0.1%: What the economists say Diego Iscaro of consultancy IHS: The new contraction in activity will definitely not help President Hollande to improve his popularity among the electorate - which currently stands at a record low.
In 64 AD., Nero began singing in public in Neapolis in order to improve his popularity.
"Just last month when we took a first look at the 2014 landscape we talked about how much Rick Snyder had improved his popularity during his second year in office and how he led a generic Democrat for reelection by 6 points, even as Barack Obama won the state comfortably," PPP's Tom Jensen writes.
