Last week, a poll conducted by the EKOS research organization for The Toronto Star, La Presse in Montreal and CBC News found nothing to dispute these grass-roots reactions.
The grass-roots reaction to the bombing campaign is best conveyed by the Serbian word inat, which has no direct English equivalent but implies a combination of extreme stubbornness and a willingness to go to any lengths to get revenge on someone who has wronged you.
Gary L. Bauer, president of American Values, a conservative advocacy group, said that if Mr. Obama extended benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers, he would "provoke a furious grass-roots reaction, reinvigorate the conservative coalition and undermine his efforts to portray himself as a moderate on social issues".
This, says sex-obsessed right-winger Gary Bauer, will "provoke a furious grass-roots reaction [and] reinvigorate the conservative coalition".
If fans want to tweet about something weird or cool happening on their TV screens, that should be part of a spontaneous grass-roots reaction, not a process controlled by a TV show's marketing or publicity agenda.
Though it's noted that Germany has become one of the few countries that puts up "never forget" monuments to its own crimes, several people note that just as important if not more so than the official state reaction were grass roots efforts, like the placement on streets of memorial paving stones to specific murdered Jews.
It's not possible at this early stage to discern quite what reaction this rise of grass roots Palestinian tech activism will have on the Israeli side.
The angry reaction they provoked was at grass roots level, from the fans themselves.
"Not since Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court have I seen such a spontaneous and strong reaction from people at the grass roots," said Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.
It is also a reaction against a Democratic Party leadership that is perceived by the grass roots as being cowardly and incompetent.
