Have the videos substantially moved public opinion on abortion? I don't see it. Basically you managed to have one endangered Dem shift is vote and one endangered R shift his.
Honestly, if this were a meaningful vote don't you think we would have been closer to 50 or less?
I think the public has slowly been drifting away from abortion for some time now. These videos are about attacking the Left's culture of death by exposing what happens after the abortion. I don't think the videos were about directly stopping abortion, they were about going after a liberal sacred cow, Planned Parenthood, the way O'Keefe and Giles went after Acorn. They weren't going to stop vote fraud, they were exposing the Left's vote fraud machine.
As with the Acorn videos, they were also about shaming Congress into action. Unlike the era of the 2009 Acorn videos, Obama has successfully introduced the concept of "doubling down" in politics. Whereas in 2008 and prior politicians would rush to act on public outrage (running to the front of the parade), today they "double down" on outrageous acts, entrench, show no remorse, and shrug off public opinion.
This arrogance in the face of negative public opinion may have been born out of a history of weak Republican resistance to the "First Black President," but the lesson the Republicans seem to have learned is not how to fight it, but how to emulate it.
That's why I think any strategy has to include throwing off the Old Guard.
-PJ