DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02919.v3
title: CBS News New Hampshire Primary Poll #1, January 2000
title: Version 3

description: This special topic poll, fielded January 15-17, 2000, is
part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public
opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social
issues. The focus of this data collection was the upcoming
presidential election and New Hampshire primaries. Residents of New
Hampshire were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton
and his handling of the presidency and New Hampshire governor Jeanne
Shaheen and her handling of the state. Respondents were asked whether
they intended to vote in the New Hampshire presidential primaries to
be held February 1, 2000, and what their opinions were of Democratic
candidates Vice President Al Gore and former New Jersey senator Bill
Bradley, and Republican candidates Texas governor George W. Bush,
Arizona senator John McCain, publisher Steve Forbes, radio talk show
host Alan Keyes, Family Research Council president Gary Bauer, and
Utah senator Orrin Hatch. They were asked which candidate they
intended to vote for and which candidate they thought would win, and
whether they had ever considered voting in the opposing political
party's primary. Respondents were further asked what they thought
about the candidates, which candidate could be trusted to keep his
word, to understand the complicated problems a president has to deal
with, and to say what he believes, and whether they thought any
candidate had made a decision as a direct result of a major campaign
contribution. Additional questions related to the presidential
campaigns probed the influence of television ads, which candidates'
health-care plan respondents supported, whether respondents had been
contacted by a campaign, and whether they had seen any of the
candidates in person. Additional topics covered included abortion,
the most important problems facing the country, and whether
homosexuals should be permitted to serve in the military. Background
information on respondents includes age, gender, political party,
political orientation, voter registration and participation history,
marital status, education, religion, race, Hispanic origin, household
income, computer and Internet access, and military service.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News New Hampshire Primary Poll #1, January 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, 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.(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.