Lula's popularity slid, while in Argentina, President Néstor Kirchner basked in popular acclaim.Now matters look a bit different.
Recent opinion polls show his popularity sliding.
HISTORY is littered with world leaders who, while seeing their popularity slide at home, continued to win accolades abroad.
"And with President Bush's popularity sliding, at this point, it's still pretty much of an uphill battle for Ralph Norman".
Although he still dominates what, after more than three years of conflict, has become the Israeli political center, Mr. Sharon has seen his popularity slide in recent months.
His popularity sliding, his colleagues sniping and his tax plans in confusion, the prime minister has effectively pressed control-alt-delete.
Outrage over a tape of Trump boasting about sexual assault precipitated his latest popularity slide and left Clinton with the near-six-point lead she now enjoys.
But going along with the CDU has been an unhappy experience for the SPD, which has seen its popularity slide even as Ms Merkel harvests the credit for all the government's successes.
Part of the problem is that the law, which comes up for reauthorization every five years, became closely associated with President George W. Bush, and as his popularity slid, the law, and its name, came under attack and ridicule.
