ABC News/Washington Post Democratic Delegate Poll, July 1992 / ABC NewsThe Washington Post.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

ABC News.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9935.

ICPSR ; 9935

ABC News/Washington Post Poll Series ; 9935

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratic National Convention (1992 : New York, N.Y.).

Democratic National Convention.

Political parties--United States--Public opinion.

Political parties.

Politics and government.

Public opinion.

United States--Politics and government--1989-1993--Public opinion.

United States.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2006-12-01.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This survey polled delegates to the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Respondents were asked to agree or disagree with statements covering a variety of issues, including raising taxes to deal with the federal budget deficit, a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion, and cutting defense spending in half over the next five years. Respondents were also asked whether it was the role of government to see to it that everyone had a job, whether they favored smaller government with fewer services or larger government with many services, and whether a breakdown in family values or government neglect of the cities was more responsible for the riots that had occurred in Los Angeles. The survey also posed questions regarding a tax cut for middle-income Americans and a program of national health insurance funded by tax increases. A major portion of the survey queried delegates on their choice for the 1992 Democratic nominee for president and vice president, and posed questions regarding various scenarios which assumed the nomination of Bill Clinton. Questions pertaining to the presidential election in general included delegates' opinions of Ross Perot, the likelihood of a race among Bush, Clinton, and Perot being decided in the House of Representatives, and whether Democratic House members should support Clinton unconditionally if the election was decided by the House of Representatives. Additionally, the survey questioned respondents about potential items for inclusion in the Democratic party platform, including increasing taxes to reduce the deficit, federally-funded abortion on demand, tax cuts for the middle class, limiting individual campaign contributions to $100, free trade with Mexico, and the $35 billion urban program proposed by the nation's mayors. Background information on delegates includes whether they held a Democratic party or pu... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09935

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2008-01-04.

Start: 1992-06-22; and end: 1992-07-06.

OCLC:

61164717

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.