She changed the ideological climate.
"Our mood is not ideological," says Celso Amorim, the foreign minister.
But in the past year, the group has split along generational and ideological lines as Japan's mood has turned strongly -- and sometimes violently -- against it.
When American manufacturers faced fundamental challenges, voters, politicians, and executives didn't put their heads together to confront them; instead, they retreated to their ideological corners and, in a mood of polarized apathy, walked away from a massive public investment.
But most every Republican candidate has one or two positions that they now find inconvenient, and Mr. Gingrich's overall ideological positioning isn't bad given the mood of the Republican electorate.
"The mood of the country is not ideological but more practical.
Oddly, Fairey's splendid tour de force for Obama anticipated a new national mood, of serious-minded pragmatism, which makes ideological extremes seem sort of quaint.
Asked to interpret Tuesday's results, Mrs. Lincoln's campaign manager, Steve Patterson, said, "The ideological spectrum is somewhat skewed this year because of the anti-Washington mood".
The best way to defeat the conservative, ideologically driven GOP, Democrats say, is to field non-ideological 'problem solvers' who can profit from the fed-up-with-partisanship mood of some suburban areas.
The mood soured further when the PAN formed a brief electoral alliance with its ideological opposites, the PRD, to push the PRI out of some governorships.
It's that the political mood music they have fostered has been of how the current government is cutting for ideological reasons.
