But there was no sign of any wholesale shift in support toward Mr. Obama on Friday.
As Peter Kellner explains here, there has been a marked shift in support for Britain remaining in the EU since November.
The shadow Welsh secretary, Cheryl Gillan, said the results marked a "fundamental shift in support" for the Conservatives.
Alito not being a bigot wouldn't disprove this reason for a shift in support away from the Democratic party.
From 2001 onwards, with the ruling centre-left rapidly losing popularity, Self-Defence was one of the prime beneficiaries of the shift in support.
The opposition said the shift in support was by voters of all ethnicities and that singling out Chinese Malaysians served only to deepen divisions.
The latest poll by the British Election Study put the SNP on 44% in Scotland and Labour on 27%, which, with barely five weeks until polling day, would represent a substantial shift in support.
Greece's national soccer team won the European championship, setting off an overwhelming shift in support for the Games as measured in the latest public-opinion polls in the country.
The most recent poll, for the Huffington Post and YouGov, suggested a shift in support away for Snowden, with 38% saying they feel he did the wrong thing in leaking documents against 33% who felt he did the right thing.
J Ann Selzer, a widely-respected pollster with a history of accurate predictions for Iowa elections, said the shift in support to the Texan senator in the state represented "a big shake-up".
