Both of the Alliance's factions, though, had promised to continue backing Labour.The timing, the cynics reckoned, had much more to do with Labour's enormous opinion-poll support (50%-plus) on the back of a strong economy both predicted to decline in tandem.
"He is just this big, big personality with enormous outsize opinions about all things," she said.
"That has enormous effect on opinion, even in the Middle Eastern countries".
There's little left in the way of traditional industry, but the one thing Brighton does produce in enormous quantity is opinion.
"Harvard hosts an enormous diversity of opinion, which is not nearly as left-wing as much of the world thinks," Matory said, adding, "But it turned out that more than half of the people agreed with me.
Dr Kevin O'Kane, chairman of the BMA's London region, which represents 34,000 doctors, said: "There's an enormous groundswell of opinion among doctors from all around the country that they lack confidence in the secretary of state for health.
The ultimate function of any standards body is epistemological; given an enormous range of opinions, it must identify some of them as beliefs.
In the justice's later years, "his enormous body of opinions guided his clerks except in the rare instances when a new issue arose," they wrote.
Given the enormous impact their opinions and analysis have on people's lives, Mr DeMartino argues, economists should be a bit more humble about the limits of their knowledge.
Facebook's popularity means that its algorithms can exert enormous power over public opinion.
