CBS News Monthly Poll #2, August 2000 / CBS News.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 3111.

ICPSR ; 3111

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This poll, fielded August 18-20, 2000, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton, presidential candidates Vice President Al Gore, Texas governor George W. Bush, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, and vice-presidential candidates former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman. Respondents were asked how much attention they had been paying to the presidential campaign, whether they found the campaign interesting, if they planned on voting in November, which presidential and vice-presidential candidate they supported, whether that decision was firm, and which candidate they thought would eventually win. Opinions were also solicited on what the respondents thought was the single most important problem for the government to address, and whether they liked the direction in which the country had been moving. Respondents were asked if the presidential candidates' choices for vice president would affect their vote, whether Clinton was too involved in Gore's campaign, whether they saw real differences between Gore and Bush, if these differences related to their positions on the issues or to their personal qualities, whether Gore and Bush could be trusted to keep their word as president, whether they had strong qualities of leadership, and whether they had spent more time attacking each other or explaining what they would do as president. Additional questions were asked about Gore's and Bush's ability to deal wisely with an international crisis, whether they cared about the problems and needs of people like the respondent, whether Gore and Bush really believed what they said or said what they thought people wanted to hear, whether the... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03111

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61153519

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