Let me suggest two other factors that may play a role in gun control's collapsing support.
Mr. Oslon's company seeks to spot dips in public opinion, or collapsing support for appointed regional leaders, before they develop into a serious problem for the Kremlin.
Opinion polls show a pattern of collapsing support for the EU in France while Hollande's ratings are at historical lows for a French president.
Talking of the "women's vote" should always come with a caveat, of course – we don't talk of the "men's vote" – but evidence of collapsing support from the female C2 vote that provided such key support in marginal seats is so worrying Cameron that he is poring "almost masochistically" over polling evidence, according to the Daily Mail.
It is perhaps no coincidence that none of the three most popular politicians in Britain, Boris Johnson, Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage, is an MP.At a time of historic disaffection with mainstream politics, as suggested by collapsing support for both Labour and the Tories, this is a big concern.
Ms. Merkel's Social Democratic challenger, Peer Steinbrück, a classic center-leftist who has deep experience in Germany's state and federal governments, urged his party to make the most of what it says is collapsing support for the chancellor and her Christian Democrats.
The candidate, Dede Scozzafava, said she was suspending her campaign in the face of collapsing support and evidence that she was heading for a loss in a three-way race on Tuesday involving Douglas L. Hoffman, running on the Conservative Party line, and Bill Owens, a Democrat.
And don't forget the press's entrenched fascination with Obama's public approval during his presidency, particularly the desire to depict "collapsing" support when, in fact, Obama's approval rating remained stubbornly stable for years.
As a consequence, they believe that once ObamaCare is fully implemented their credibility on the subject will collapse, support for major new progressive initiatives will increase, the popularity of the President - and of Democrats in Congress - will go up, and their chances of hanging on to the House or taking the Senate in 2014 - and the White House in 2016 - will decline.
a collapsed buildings supported by wooden sticks; b Cracks in the building and metal supporting sticks.
