Has the government reached a tipping point?

That things were not going well was already blatantly obvious - only the distortive lens of arrogance could make people who didn't want to face up to the truth think otherwise. One look at the qualitative data of the public opinion polls, however, was enough to convince the ostriches: For months and with almost no variation, surveys showed that more than six in 10 Greeks believed that the country was headed in the wrong direction, more than seven in 10 that the government had failed in its management of big issues such as prices, healthcare, education and - very importantly - the gangrene of corruption. The levels of dissatisfaction were high, equal to those seen in other parts of the world only where governments are in their waning days.

What do these poll findings tell us? That ruling New Democracy's political dominance is fragile. That it finds itself in a dominant role...