DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02868
title: CBS News/New York Times New York State Poll, October 1999
title: Archival Version

description: This special topic poll, fielded October 23-27, 1999,
queried residents of New York State on the prospective Senate race
between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani in 2000, and on a
range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked to
give their opinions of President Bill Clinton, New York State governor
George Pataki, former president Ronald Reagan, Vice President Al Gore,
Texas governor George W. Bush, former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley,
First Lady Hillary Clinton, New York City mayor Giuliani, and
political activist Al Sharpton. Regarding the upcoming Senate race,
respondents were asked how much attention they were paying to the
upcoming election, for whom they would vote, and whether that decision
was firm or not. They were also asked which of the two potential
candidates cared more about people like the respondent and about
people living in New York City, its suburbs, and upstate New York,
which candidate would do a better job at reforming health care,
improving education, reducing crime, and representing respondents'
interests in the Senate, which candidate had the right kind of
experience for the job and would work well with other senators, which
candidate would "protect access to legal abortion" best, and which
candidate had the honesty and integrity respondents wanted to see in a
United States senator from New York. Respondents were asked to rate
the two candidates as liberal, moderate, or conservative, to assess
their individual motives in running for the Senate seat, should they
choose to run, to give their opinions on the recent Brooklyn Museum of
Art controversy, and to comment on whether recent White House scandals
were a legitimate issue for the Senate campaign. Referring to
Giuliani, respondents were asked whether they approved or disapproved
of his handling of the job of New York City mayor overall, and
specifically in his dealings with crime, education, race relations,
and economic development issues. Referring to Clinton, respondents
were asked whether they approved or disapproved of her handling of the
role of First Lady, and whether her relatively recent move to New York
State created problems for her Senate candidacy. Respondents were also
queried about the upcoming presidential campaign in 2000, including
whether they were paying attention to the campaign news, whether they
were registered or planned to vote for a major party, whom they wanted
as the Republican and Democratic nominees, and how they would vote in
potential match-ups. Other issues probed included President Clinton's
recent offer of clemency to jailed Puerto Rican nationalists and
members of the group F.A.L.N., the Jonathan Pollard spy case, what to
do with prospective federal budget surpluses, raising the minimum
wage, the state of health care in the United States, abortion, and fan
loyalty to New York baseball teams. Background information on
respondents includes age, sex, race, education, religion, voter
registration and participation history, political party, political
orientation, Hispanic descent, marital status, and family income.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News/New York Times New York State Poll, October 1999
description: 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.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.