ABC News Clinton Terrorism Poll, August 1998 (ICPSR 2634)

Version Date: Feb 25, 1999

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ABC News

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02634.v1

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Summary

This special topic poll, fielded August 19, 1998, sought respondents' views on the presidency and on the United States' decision, earlier in the day, to launch missile attacks against sites in Afghanistan and Sudan that were suspected to have been used by terrorists who attacked two United States embassies in Africa earlier in the month. Respondents were asked whether they believed that the attacks would prove an effective deterrent against future acts of terrorism, whether they trusted President Bill Clinton to handle the United States' response to terrorism, and whether the attacks were for the purpose of combating terrorism or to shift public attention away from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Those queried were also asked whether they believed that the situation involving Lewinsky had interfered with Clinton's ability to serve effectively as president. Background information on respondents includes sex and political party.

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ABC News. ABC News Clinton Terrorism Poll, August 1998. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999-02-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02634.v1

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1998-08

Data Collection Notes

  1. The data are provided as an SPSS portable file.

  2. 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.

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Original Release Date

1999-02-25

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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • ABC News. ABC News Clinton Terrorism Poll, August 1998. ICPSR02634-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02634.v1
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