DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02787.v3
title: CBS News Monthly Poll, June 1999
title: Version 3

description: This poll, fielded June 5-6, 1999, 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 and his handling of the presidency, foreign policy, and
the economy, as well as his ability to deal effectively with
international crisis and the situation in Yugoslavia involving Serbia
and Kosovo. Opinions were also sought regarding the Republican and
Democratic parties, the United States Congress, Vice President Al
Gore, First Lady Hillary Clinton, former President George Bush, former
First Lady Barbara Bush, Texas Governor George W. Bush, Florida
Governor Jeb Bush, former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, former
president of the American Red Cross Elizabeth Dole, Arizona Senator
John McCain, and businessman Steve Forbes. Those queried were asked to
identify the qualities they felt were most important for a president,
whether the next president should be a Washington insider, and whether
they intended to vote in the party primaries/caucuses preceding the
2000 election. Given a Democratic primary or caucus for president in
2000 with candidates Gore and Bradley, respondents were asked for
their vote choice. Given a Republican primary or caucus for president
in 2000 with candidates George W. Bush, Elizabeth Dole, McCain,
former Vice President and Indiana Senator Dan Quayle, Forbes, former
Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, Ohio Congressman John Kasich,
Family Research Council president Gary Bauer, conservative commentator
Pat Buchanan, and New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith, respondents were
again asked for whom they would vote. In addition, those queried were
asked to consider the presidential leadership qualities of the named
candidates. Views were sought on the candidates' abilities to solve
problems with innovation, whether they cared about the problems of the
American people, and whether Bush and Gore were likely to carry on the
policies of Bush's father and Clinton, respectively. A series of
questions addressed the United States and North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) air strikes against military targets in
Yugoslavia. Topics covered the use of United States ground troops as
part of a larger peacekeeping force, whether Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic would keep his promise to withdraw Serbian military
forces and to allow ethnic Albanian refugees to return to Kosovo, who
won the war in Kosovo, and the role of the United States in
maintaining peace and protecting ethnic Albanians. Background
information on respondents includes age, race, sex, education, marital
status, political party, political orientation, voter registration and
participation history, age of children in household, Hispanic origin,
family income, computer and e-mail access, and stock market
investment.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News Monthly Poll, June 1999
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collection in essentially the same form in which they were
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to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure
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Internet.The ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has been added to the collection.