Polls indicate that fewer Latinos oppose gay marriage and abortion than only a year ago.
So how to explain the seeming contradiction with two larger studies published only a year ago?
This newfound media freedom is promising to transform societies in ways perhaps unimaginable only a year ago.
Before the commercial Hadoop arena (which got going in earnest only a year ago) got off its feet.
Only a year ago, America, although sympathetic to Georgia, was far more reticent.
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The government built the first school only a year ago, so most of Saridal's 400-odd residents have no formal education.
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This from a young online company offering daily deals that was hyped only a year ago as a big growth story.
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It was only a year ago that many biotech watchers were united in predicting failure for both Tarceva and Genentech's real star, Avastin.
Only a year ago, Governor Pat Quinn and his fellow Democrats raised individual income taxes by 67% and the corporate tax rate by 46%.
Only a year ago, Mr Bush was in a pickle, after the defection of Senator Jim Jeffords handed the upper chamber to the Democrats.
"I'll just sit and wait for the call now, " said Calvert, who only a year ago finished fourth in this event at the national titles.
That seems to have allowed him to win over voters in the centre who only a year ago would have balked at his political past.
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Only a year ago papers were not allowed even to mention Ms Suu Kyi's name, and the few independent-minded publications had to resort to imaginative ruses.
One is a cabinet without a single hawk or even semi-hawk, whereas only a year ago there were three: Leon Panetta, David Petraeus and even Hillary Clinton.
EU's leaders at a special gathering in Lisbon only a year ago that was supposed to provide a platform for launching Europe's economy into a higher orbit of reform.
Only a year ago Miss Suu Kyi, who has spent most of the past two decades under house arrest, was not even allowed to be mentioned in the government-controlled media.
After all, chancellors always say they are going to close loopholes and cut down on avoidance - Mr Osborne promised to raise a billion with such measures only a year ago.
It seems like dozens of global economies that were on the brink of an abyss only a year ago, but are now pulled well back from the edge, are being held there by intertwined strands of hope, with each one that stretches too far or breaks giving the rest an unsettling lurch back toward the abyss.
There is also a return for Norwegian-based goalkeeper Emile Baron, who won his only cap a year ago in the World Cup build-up but was not taken to the finals in South Korea.
He says there are probably 5, 000 rogue sites on the Web, up from only 200 a year ago.
It seems hard to believe that it was only about a year ago that petrol in the US was cheaper than bottled water.
Some two dozen online terrorist discussion groups and Arabic-language hacking forums are now tracked online, up from only four a year ago, says IDefense, a Reston, Va. firm.
Up until only a year or so ago, my business was completely different.
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Half of them feel that if they identified a target for acquisition, they'd be better prepared to act quickly now, vs. only 36% a year ago.
Sales of the iBook consumer notebook were 186, 000, up only 1% from a year ago.
But she took up the game only a year and a half ago.
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Brawn only came into being a year ago when Honda pulled out, but enjoyed a remarkable debut season, claiming both the drivers' and constructors' titles.
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