Now, the thrust of this polling is not that everything has changed, but that the balance has shifted in the other direction.

NPR: Conservatively Speaking, Things Look Bad

That may seem like only a short time ago, but an incoming technological explosion of nuclear proportions isn't so far-fetched when you consider everything that's changed just between then and now.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Right now, residents can only think of the town they once knew and how everything changed that Friday.

CNN: A message from beyond: Peace in Newtown