Cristina Kirchner is leaving office, after eight years in power, with a popularity rating of forty per cent, the second-highest of any exiting president in the past three decades.
He remains the overwhelming favourite on the right, with a popularity rating of 50%, compared with just 29% for Mr de Villepin, the prime minister.
Even before this result, he had broken polling records under France's Fifth Republic as the country's most unpopular president, with a popularity rating of just 18%.
Awareness of sun protection has become imperative as a consequence of increased leisure time with a growing popularity of outdoor activities and holidays in the sun.
I think it's a combination of an increased interest in organic products in general coupled with an insurgent popularity of so-called "natural wine" amongst the vino cognoscenti.
A lot of blogging, for example, resonates with the popularity of an intimate, personal, or "diaristic" point of view in public commentary.
It's all of a piece with the popularity of Oprah and Celebrity Sleepover, with the widespread desire to be implicated in the exposure of what was formerly private, because it feels dangerous, transgressive, exciting.
Church officials in Rome and in the United States have expressed concern that the case for Pius XII's canonization suffered a setback with the popularity of books like "Hitler's Pope," by John Cornwell, and "Constantine's Sword," by James Carroll, that argue that Pius XII was complicit in the genocide of the Jews.
Based on theoretical reasoning it has been suggested that the reliability of findings published in the scientific literature decreases with the popularity of a research field.
Support for Ms Sturgeon also remains high, with the First Minister recording a popularity rating of +27 per cent.
