Furthermore, the public is now about evenly divided over whether the incident involved sexual harassment, while two years ago the public felt it did not. Still, that leaves a substantial majority of Americans who believe the incident is not relevant. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones could now proceed with her sexual harassment lawsuit rather than wait until Clinton's term of office is over, as the President had wanted. The poll shows that the only partisan consensus on this matter is that some incident probably occurred. What happened and who is telling the truth, however, remain matters of great dispute between Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats express the opposite views by similarly large margins.
For results based on samples of this size, one can say with 95 percent confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects could be plus or minus 4 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. As you may know, earlier this week the Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones can proceed with her case against President Clinton while he is in office, rather than have to wait until he is out of office. Regardless of what her legal rights are, which of the following best describes the action you would like to see Paula Jones take at this point.