Mr Abe's current emphasis on stamping out amakudari suggests a tin ear for the public mood.
It is a matter of principle for me and something that responds to the public mood.
It may be that Gingrich's past does make him particularly vulnerable to the public mood.
When economic performance is good and public mood is sour, take a long look at stocks.
The public mood is also one of grudging assent, if not exactly fervent support.
This loyal praise from Ms Rabin for the prime minister's moderation reflects the public mood.
Mr Erdogan is a master at scenting the public mood, but his popularity is falling.
Still, Islamist parties have sensed a change in the public mood and become more moderate, analysts say.
An opinion poll conducted after the figure was released showed an instant switch in the public mood.
Whether they actually do so will depend, in part, on whether marketeers have read the public mood correctly.
Pakistan's main military-intelligence body, the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), kept the public mood simmering.
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The public mood has shifted to the left before parliamentary elections next April.
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For the Daily Express, the public mood and the acknowledgement of that mood by politicians can't now be ignored.
But they had not reckoned with the changing public mood: the middle classes' patience with endless strikes seems finally to have snapped.
Yet the prime minister seems to have judged the public mood well.
In a rare misjudgment of the public mood, Lula laughingly lamented his bad luck to be leaving just before the largesse arrived.
The prime minister, Keizo Obuchi, seems to have caught the public mood.
He is not going to capture the public mood with that record, any more than he has won the heart of his party.
We were ready to arrive to a negotiated solution and I must tell you that what's happening changed dramatically the public mood in Israel.
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Up until the last few days everything looked set for a gentle Labour victory but then events seemed to turn the public mood suddenly.
"I'm not sure the public mood is going to improve on this anytime soon, " said Mark Glaze, the executive director of Mr. Bloomberg's group.
The Kremlin wants to anticipate the public mood, and is testing its candidates and the ideas they embody on television and in opinion polls.
But the poll also shows continued concern over job security, and Mr. Hart speculated that if unemployment numbers rise, the public mood will fall again.
The Iowa caucuses are still ten months away, and it is hard to see the Kosovo crisis dominating the public mood for all that time.
Alex Salmond of the Scottish Nationalists thought he had read the public mood when he called the bombing a folly that would unite the Serbs.
But with the euro's recent troubles, and an increasing scepticism in the public mood, the government has been hinting that the referendum might be delayed.
Given the current public mood, this may sound like electoral suicide.
Regardless of whether some "great meaning" emerges from Tuesday's results, there are nonetheless some elections worth watching for what they might reveal about the public mood.
Sometimes public-relations teams are asked to keep an eye on online discussions, and switched-on company executives visit forums to stay in touch with the public mood.
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