DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03236
title: CBS News Post Election Call-Back Poll, November 2000
title: Archival Version

description: This poll, conducted November 10-12, 2000, is a call-back
 poll following a poll conducted November 1-4, 2000. It 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. Views
 were sought on President Bill Clinton and his handling of the
 presidency and whether the country was going in the right or wrong
 direction. Prior to the 2000 presidential election, respondents were
 asked how much attention they paid to it, the likelihood that they
 would vote, whether their mind was made up, whom they would vote for
 (Democrat Al Gore, Republican George W. Bush, Reform Party candidate
 Pat Buchanan, or Green Party candidate Ralph Nader), who they expected
 to win, and whether it made a difference who was elected president.
 Opinions were solicited on George W. Bush and Al Gore, and the
 likelihood that each candidate would maintain a strong national
 economy, improve education, correctly handle an international crisis,
 preserve Social Security, and appoint pro-choice Supreme Court
 Justices. Questions were posed regarding how much respondents had
 heard or read about George W. Bush's 1976 drunk driving arrest,
 whether it would make a difference in their vote, and whether Bush
 should have made this information public earlier in his campaign.
 Following election day, respondents were polled on whether they had
 voted, which presidential candidate they had voted for, how closely
 they followed the election results, if the closeness of the election
 made them regret not voting or wish they had voted for another
 candidate, and the seriousness of the mistakes made by network
 television in reporting the election results. Several questions
 addressed whether the Electoral College should be kept or eliminated,
 whether the winner of the electoral vote or the popular vote had a
 more legitimate claim to the presidency, and whether a candidate who
 won the Electoral College vote but not the popular vote could
 effectively lead the country. Opinions were solicited on how George
 W. Bush and Al Gore were handling the uncertain outcome of the
 presidential election, whether either candidate was placing politics
 above the good of the country, whether Palm Beach County, Florida,
 should have a re-vote, how confident respondents were that their own
 votes were counted properly, and whether the country's uncertainty
 over its next president was a serious problem. Background variables
 include sex, age, ethnicity, length of residency, income, marital
 status, religion, education, labor union membership, number of
 telephone lines, whether they were children in the household,
 political orientation, political party affiliation, and voter
registration and participation history.
description: A variation of random-digit dialing using primary sampling
 units (PSUs) was employed, consisting of blocks of 100 telephone
 numbers identical through the eighth digit and stratified by
 geographic region, area code, and size of place. Within households,
 respondents were selected using a method developed by Leslie Kish and
 modified by Charles Backstrom and Gerald Hursh (see Backstrom and
 Hursh, SURVEY RESEARCH. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press,
1963).
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News Post Election Call-Back Poll, November 2000
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having a telephone at home.
description: (1) The data contain weight variables that should be
 used for analysis. (2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR 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 on the ICPSR Web site.