Mr. Sudeikis worked on delivering Mr. Romney's list of 41 fixes for the economy (which included "six abrupt reversals of opinion and three lies") in a modulated tone that allowed the Obama voice-over to be prominent.
Though the political conventions did not draw as many viewers as they have in the past, the abrupt changes in opinion ratings show that when television devotes at least some time to the campaign, the public starts to pay attention.
Several pollsters said that shifts in public mood could prove to be transitory in an era of abrupt swings in opinion and might have been accelerated by Mr. Bush's call last Sunday for $87 billion to finance the war effort.
Because the doctrines that resulted in his condemnation cannot be found in the Guide, this abrupt reversal of opinion is attributed to the discovery of personal immorality on the part of Molinos, the exact nature of which remains locked in the files of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
An abrupt change in the opinion of 10-12% of the electorate can in principle have big consequences, says William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
The abrupt shift in public opinion against the prime minister was the fallout from the firing of his foreign minister, Makiko Tanaka, this week.
Although there are no studies comparing gradual and abrupt interruption, the widespread opinion of specialists considers drug withdrawal to be more effective when done abruptly because this is believed to achieve a fast resolution of the drug-induced pain-coping behavior [21, 40, 43, 49, 54].
New opinion polls and a shift in bookmakers' odds prompted an abrupt change in financial market sentiment, catching some investors off-guard, said Jasper Lawler, an analyst at the spread betting and financial trading site CMC Markets.
George Osborne could point his more irate party colleagues to recent opinion polls, which show such abrupt means-testing to be extraordinarily popular: a You Gov survey for last week's Sunday Times gave a two-to-one majority behind the idea of abolishing child-benefit for upper rate taxpayers.
