DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03860.v1
title: ABC News Bergen Record New Jersey Election Poll, October 1994
title: Version 1

description: This special topic poll, fielded October 17-October 20,
 1994, was undertaken to assess respondents' views on the candidates in
 November's election for United States Senate in the state of New
 Jersey. The candidates included Frank Lautenberg and Chuck Haytaian.
 Residents of New Jersey were asked to rate the likelihood of their
 voting in the election, to indicate their voting intentions and
 preferences for candidates in the election, to comment on the job
 performances of the candidates, and to identify one or two issues or
 problems that were the most important to them in deciding who to vote
 for. Respondents were also queried about their views on which
 candidate would do more to cut taxes, to fight crime, to support
 change in Congress, and to battle the special interests, as well as
 which one was more likely to be a strong leader. Additional questions
 probed respondents' opinions on whether local property taxes had gone
 up, who was most to blame for the increase in local property taxes,
 and what would happen to local property taxes in the next 12 months.
 Opinions were also solicited on whether respondents approved of
 Governor Christie Whitman's postponing some of her plans to cut taxes
 for a year, how likely it was that Governor Whitman would succeed in
 cutting the income tax by 30 percent within four years, and whether
 they would like to see Governor Whitman run for vice president in
 1996. Other topics addressed whether respondents supported legislation
 to allow riverboat gambling in the Meadowlands, and whether they
 supported legislation that would require authorities to notify
 neighbors, schools, and youth groups whenever a convicted sex offender
 moved into their community. In addition, respondents were asked to
 comment on the job performance of President Clinton and Governor
 Whitman, and whether they believed things in New Jersey were generally
 going in the right direction. Background information on respondents
 includes voter registration status, party preference, marital status,
 education, household income, religious orientation, Hispanic origin,
race, age, and sex.
description: Households were selected by random-digit dialing. Within
 households, the respondent selected was the adult living in the
 household who last had a birthday and who was home at the time of the
interview.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: ABC News Bergen Record New Jersey Election Poll, October 1994
description: Persons aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in the contiguous 48 states.
description: (1) Additional information about sampling,
 interviewing, weighting, and sampling error may be found in the
 codebook. (2) The data are provided as an SPSS portable file. (3)
 ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection
 in essentially the same form in which they were received. When
 appropriate, documentation has been converted to Portable Document
 Format (PDF), data files have been converted to non-platform-specific
 formats, and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents'
 anonymity. (4) 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.