DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02870
title: CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll, November 1999
title: Archival Version

description: This poll, fielded November 4-7, 1999, is part of a
 continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on
 the presidency and on a range of political and social
 issues. Respondents were asked to give their views on President Bill
 Clinton and his handling of the economy and foreign policy, the United
 States Congress, First Lady Hillary Clinton, Vice President Al Gore,
 former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, Texas governor George W. Bush,
 Arizona senator John McCain, publisher Steve Forbes, conservative
 commentator Pat Buchanan, Family Research Council president Gary
 Bauer, talk show host Alan Keyes, Utah senator Orrin Hatch,
 businessman Donald Trump, and the Republican and Democratic political
 parties. A series of questions addressed the upcoming 2000
 presidential race. Topics centered on how much attention respondents
 had paid to the campaign, whether they intended to vote in a primary
 or caucus, and whom they expected to win the presidential
 election. Respondents were asked for whom they would vote in a
 Democratic primary or caucus, given a choice between Gore and Bradley,
 and for whom they would vote in a Republican primary or caucus, given
 a choice among Bush, Buchanan, Forbes, McCain, Keyes, and Hatch. Their
 views were also sought on a planned Reform Party primary with the
 following contenders: Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, actor Warren
 Beatty, Buchanan, Trump, and Reform Party founder Ross
 Perot. Respondents were given several presidential match-ups and asked
 for whom they would vote in each scenario. Those queried were also
 asked which political party they felt was best equipped to make
 decisions regarding the economy, Social Security, the environment,
 Medicare, the tax system, the military, the federal budget, health
 care, education, and family values. Additional topics covered
 respondents' views on abortion, the correlation between a political
 candidate's stance on abortion and the likelihood of the respondent
 voting for that candidate, the role of the Reform Party in United
 States politics, and respondents' interest level in professional
 sports. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, race,
 Hispanic descent, political party, political orientation, voter
 registration and participation history, education, religion, marital
status, age of children in household, and family income.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll, November 1999
description: (1) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR
 staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this
 collection in essentially the same form in which they were
 received. When appropriate, hardcopy documentation has been converted
 to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure
 respondents' anonymity. (2) The codebook is provided as a Portable
 Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe
 Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software,
 such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy
 of the Acrobat Reader is provided through through the ICPSR Website on
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