In most cases, these events and trends have moved opinions rather gradually in a more positive direction, but in some arenas, the shift has been minimal or even retrograde.
If you get out on the ground, you'll actually move opinion.
Even before the prosecutors' move, opinion polls showed that a majority of Germans believed that he should step down.
Messina wanted Gershkoff to build a master program that would allow him, as the campaign manager, to decide how to spend the campaign's advertising budget across all mediums — not just television, but the Internet, radio, print ads and the mail — at optimum cost using real-time polling data to measure how the ads were moving or not moving opinion.
"The template for how marriage got passed won't work for every issue," Mr. Cohen said, "but on issues where you need to move opinion in Albany and generate public support in a world in which perceptions are very fluid, this is a game plan that works".
Matthews wants to know if anyone in the media today can move opinion across the board, like -- he intimates via clips -- Johnny Carson.
With speeches like these, F.D.R. moved public opinion by degrees.
A former chancellor and foreign secretary, his speeches moved public opinion and changed Conservative thinking.
You would think that if the occupiers have moved public opinion at all, it would be on that subject.
So far, he has barely moved public opinion on this signature issue from where it was a year ago.
