DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03125
title: CBS News/New York Times Michigan State Poll, September 2000
title: Archival Version

description: This special topic poll, fielded September 22-25, 2000,
queried residents of Michigan on the upcoming 2000 presidential race
and the 2000 Michigan state Senate race, and on a range of other
political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their
opinions of President Bill Clinton, Texas governor George W. Bush,
Vice President Al Gore, former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney,
Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, Michigan senator Spencer Abraham,
Michigan representative Debbie Stabenow, and consumer advocate Ralph
Nader. Regarding the upcoming presidential election, respondents were
asked how much attention they were paying to the campaign, for whom
they would vote, and whether that decision was firm. They were also
asked which of the two candidates, Bush or Gore, cared more about
people like the respondent, whether the two candidates had strong
qualities of leadership, and whether the candidates shared the moral
values of most Americans. Opinions were gathered from respondents on
whether the candidates spent more time attacking each other or
explaining what they would do as president, and whether these attacks
seemed unfair. Respondents were also asked if the budget surplus
should be used to pay down the national debt, cut income taxes, or
preserve programs such as Social Security and Medicare, how important
reducing costs of prescription drugs for the elderly was, how they
felt about trade and tuition vouchers, and which presidential
candidate's views on these issues most closely resembled their
own. Opinions were elicited on whether Gore or Bush, if elected, would
improve the economy, trade, health care, education, prescription drugs
for the elderly, and the environment, and if they would reduce
taxes. In regard to presidential campaign commercials for the November
2000 election, respondents were asked if they had seen any campaign
commercials, whether these ads showed what the candidates stood for or
if they attacked their opponent, and whether these ads made
respondents feel better or worse about Bush or Gore. With respect to
the upcoming Senate race, respondents were asked which candidate they
were most likely to vote for and whether that decision was firm, if
Abraham and Stabenow had spent more time attacking each other or
explaining what they would do as senator, and whether these attacks
seemed unfair. Background information on respondents includes age,
sex, race, education, religion, voter registration and participation
history, political party, political orientation, membership in a
union, Hispanic descent, marital status, and family income.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News/New York Times Michigan State Poll, September 2000
description: (1) 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, 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
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.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.