Sentences with phrase «shift in public opinion»

Otherwise, there has not been any dramatic shifts in public opinion.

And that conflict has the potential to lead to a rapid shift in public opinion regarding the validity of these protests.

This measure reflects the national trend and dramatic shift in public opinion.

The flow is vulnerable to a number of factors, including unpredictable shifts in public opinion on such emotive issues as immigration and preferential treatment of foreigners in the workplace.

«These studies are both timely and important because of the recent seismic shift in public opinion in support of equal rights and acceptance of gay individuals,» Ickes said.

But I can't say I trust such anecdotal evidence — just because a few elite firms are changing their policies, or just because there is a «many» or «most» shift in public opinion about work / life balance doesn't mean that there's really a change coming.

With the critical factors now in hand, the researchers sought to create a narrative to explain the major shifts in public opinion — which occurred in 2004, 2007 and 2010, where 26 percent, 41 percent and 28 percent of Gallup poll respondents, respectively, stated they «worried a great deal» about climate change.

It's also hard to say definitely that Parkland, rather than another factor, caused shifts in public opinion that have occurred.

Even if the Parkland shooting itself didn't cause or accelerate this shift, it could mark the culmination of a long - term shift in public opinion toward being more supportive of gun regulations.

And that success, Schneiderman said, stemmed from a broader shift in public opinion, tied closely to the blossoming of the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street movement.

The Fix crew interprets the data here (summary: they see an edge for Obama); I'll just add that it'll be interesting to see how shifts in public opinion in the various states will affect the campaigns» allocation of resources to 1) digital advertising, and 2) grassroots outreach.

The liberal shift in public opinion has come together with a groundswell of opposition to the unfair treatment of settled migrants at exactly the moment when a new home secretary, Sajid Javid, himself a child of migrants, sets out to build a post-Brexit migration system.

«While public opinion polls have largely remained constant on fracking in recent years, Governor Cuomo's statement that he expects to make a decision in just 40 days — despite a lack of accessible science — has caused a marked shift in public opinion and overall interest in this dangerous activity.

But the organized campaign against Anne Hathaway last Oscar season seemed less like a once - in - a-generation shift in public opinion and more like the way social media enables group thought now.

Baumgartner and Jones argued that policy generally changes only incrementally, until some event, such as change in the party control of government or sizable shifts in public opinion, lead to large policy alterations.

EdNext also identifies trends over time when shifts in public opinion are detected.

During more recent months it is not overstating the case to say that there has been a perceptible shift in public opinion.

As the link between human activity and climate change becomes conventional wisdom and governments work urgently to establish a global climate treaty, Pachauri deserves no small amount of credit for creating such an extraordinary shift in public opinion.

Rabble explains the decades - long history behind the uranium controversy — and a likely reason behind an apparent shift in public opinion in recent years:

The global economic collapse of the last 12 months has produced a dramatic shift in public opinion on appropriate reward for a job well done and what should happen when things don't go well.

A survey conducted on behalf of SPIEGEL found a dramatic shift in public opinion — Germans are losing their fear of climate change.

◦ Trend: Public support for school vouchers targeted toward low - income families has dropped by 12 percentage points since 2012 — a major shift in public opinion.

This shift in public opinion has narrowed the pool of acceptable jurors in capital cases, NPR's Emily Green has reported.

Privacy experts said this shift in public opinion was what they had been waiting for, because it is the only way to bring about change.

The shift in public opinion on gay marriage in our country is not primarily the result of social conservatives» recent failures to stand and defend the few political leaders speaking openly about their opposition to it.

It is impossible, therefore, to say whether changing numbers reflect a shift in public opinion or evidence of random bias in one poll, perhaps resulting from the accidental overrepresentation of one party's supporters in a polling sample.

Now the crisis in the eurozone has contributed to a shift in public opinion, and Britain would probably vote «out» - so Clegg has changed his mind and no longer thinks a referendum is necessary.

But the shift in public opinion needed to win a big majority is far too much for just five years.

So as the parliamentary establishment obsesses about Brexit, shifts in public opinion may still follow making British politics an unknown quantity.

For that reason, it is all the more interesting to observe that in some cases a shift in public opinion seems to be occurring.

And as quoted at Romm's blog, Bob Brulle asserted that «The shift in public opinion about climate change is linked to the nature of mainstream media coverage of the so - called «climategate scandal.»

Only a shift in public opinion and the growing clamour from big business for climate action can turn the US position around, regardless of who wins the election.

Shifts in public opinion on climate change are tied to efforts of political leaders and advocacy groups.

The change in state laws appears to be following a shift in public opinion.