21.   Maybe that is why so many incumbents who measure such things say their popularity ratings are stuck at record lows.

22.   More worrying to Schroeder, according to Renate Koecher of the Allensbach polling group, Stoiber is catching up in personal popularity ratings.

23.   Newspaper polls show that many people have accepted that hard reality and that Zedillo is enjoying the highest popularity ratings of his presidency.

24.   Obuchi is regarded as financially naive, and he and his cabinet have low early popularity ratings.

25.   On the other hand, Chernomyrdin too needs time to raise his extremely low popularity rating in preparation for presidential elections.

26.   One who knows about popularity ratings firsthand is former President Gerald R. Ford.

27.   Recent opinion surveys have shown that while his popularity rating has dropped overall, he remains popular among the poor.

28.   Putin, for his part, has watched his popularity ratings climb as he has rebuffed the West.

29.   So far, no doubt to their mutual frustration, they have nearly the same popularity ratings, which have risen and fallen together.

30.   Some observers wonder how these officials will proceed without the tempering influence of Walesa, whose popularity ratings have sunk precipitously in the polls.