31.   Vajpayee is riding on a wave of personal popularity credited with military success in Kashmir.

32.   Vajpayee is likely to benefit from a strengthened economy, and is riding a wave of personal popularity.

33.   While polls indicate declining electoral support for the Social Democrats, Schroeder retains an edge in personal popularity and surveys show the race is extremely tight.

34.   For despite his huge personal popularity among ordinary Russians, politically, he is out in the desert.

35.   But as a political newcomer he lacked a solid party base and was counting on personal popularity to win the day in the presidential poll.

36.   But the blunt-talking Holbrooke has done little to win personal popularity contests.

37.   Despite a shaky majority, he has succeeded in pushing through much-needed reforms and in the process has won considerable personal popularity.

38.   Despite a shaky majority he has succeeded in pushing through some much-needed reforms and in the process has won considerable personal popularity.

39.   Kuchma did not have a developed political machine to back him, basing his campaign on his personal popularity.

40.   Stacked against him is the entire political class, which dislikes him just because of his personal popularity and his impetuous nature.