Such programs are politically popular, but experts question their effectiveness.

They can use it to increase spending on education, health care, the military and other politically popular programs.

He will present himself as a champion of privacy rights, a politically popular cause.

"My job isn't really to do what is politically popular," he said.

He said legislators now see support for the act as a politically popular move and a way to help cities without spending much money.

The notion of union is politically popular in both nations.

It is a politically popular view and hardly the first of its kind.

In some fortunate cases, the politically popular move is exactly the right one.

"He knows this will not be a politically popular decision."

In the late 1970s and 1980s, regulatory reform became popular politically.