CBS News/New York Times State of the Union Poll and Call-Back, February 1993 (ICPSR 6199)

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For this special topic poll, opinion was solicited before and after President Bill Clinton's State of the Union speech delivered February 17, 1993. Prior to the speech, questions were posed regarding Clinton's handling of the presidency, his campaign promises, the national economy, respondents' personal financial situations, and strategies to reduce the federal budget deficit. Other items assessed the share of tax dollars being spent on defense, Social Security, and health care, issues regarding homosexuals, and Al Gore's and Hillary Clinton's influence on the President. Additional questions concerned improving health care, the likelihood that respondents would watch Clinton's State of the Union speech, whether women nominated to high office by the Clinton Administration were being held to stricter standards than men, and the hiring of illegal aliens. Respondents recontacted in the call-back survey subsequent to the President's speech were queried regarding Clinton's handling of the presidency, the economic plan outlined in his speech, and the federal budget deficit. Background information on respondents includes perception of the amount of income needed to be too rich to be considered middle class, whether the respondent had a gay or lesbian friend/family member, the importance of religion, chances of being out of work sometime in the next 12 months, military service, parental status, economic self-placement, 1992 presidential vote choice, voter registration status, political party, political orientation, religious preference, fundamentalist self-identification, education, age, race, preference for "African-American" or "Black" as a label, Hispanic origin, marital status, family income, sex, and past involvement in expressing opinions by writing to Congress, calling in to a radio or television talk show, calling or writing to a newspaper, and calling an 800 or 900 number.

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