DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02981.v3
title: CBS News/New York Times New York State Poll, April 2000
title: Version 3

description: This special topic poll, fielded April 1-5, 2000, queried
residents of New York State on the prospective Senate race between
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and New York City Mayor 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, Hillary Clinton,
Rudolph Giuliani, and civil rights 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,
whether that decision was firm, and who they thought would win.
Respondents were also asked which of the potential candidates cared
more about people like the respondent, whether the candidates cared
about the needs and problems of Black people, and whether the
candidates were trying to bring together or divide various groups of
New Yorkers. Respondents were asked whether they approved or
disapproved of the way Giuliani was handling his job as mayor, and the
way he was handling crime, education, and race relations. Regarding
Mrs. Clinton, respondents were asked whether they approved of the way
she was handling her role as First Lady. Opinions were also elicited
on whether Hillary Clinton and Giuliani were spending more time
explaining what they would do as senator or attacking each
other. Respondents were asked to rate the performance of the New York
City police department, whether the police should interfere in
individuals' freedoms to make the city safer, and if the respondent
had ever been insulted by an officer, felt in personal danger from a
police officer, or felt safer because of a police officer. Other
questions focused on whether racial profiling was widespread in New
York City, whether racial profiling was justified, whether respondents
had personally been racially profiled, and if the police favored
whites over Blacks or Blacks over whites. In relation to the police
shooting death of Patrick Dorismond, an unarmed Black male, outside of
a Manhattan bar, respondents were asked how closely they had been
following the shooting, how common brutality by the New York City
police department against minorities was, how the policies of the
Giuliani administration affected the amount of police brutality in New
York City, whether the officer involved in the Dorismond shooting
should face criminal charges, and whether the public comments made by
Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, and Sharpton regarding the shooting made
the situation better or worse. Background information on respondents
includes voter registration and participation history, political
party, political orientation, marital status, religion, education,
age, sex, race, Hispanic descent, and family income.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News/New York Times New York State Poll, April 2000
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collection in essentially the same form in which they were
received. When appropriate, hardcopy documentation has been converted
to machine-readable form, data files have been converted to
non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to
ensure respondents' anonymity. (2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR
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site.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.