Gallup Poll

This work is the only complete compilation of polls taken by the Gallup organisation, the world's most reliable and widely-quoted research firm. It is a valuable tool for ascertaining the pulse of American public opinion in a certain year, as well as for documenting changing perceptions over time of crucial core issues (such as women's rights, capital punishment and so on), which is necessary for all social science research. It is also a valuable reference tool for all public libraries as well as junior college and major academic research libraries. This issue is overwhelmingly dominated by the 1992 Presidential election. The Gallup Poll shows President Bush's vacillating approval ratings; the changing fortunes of the varied Democratic presidential candidates; Americans' attitudes toward Ross Perot. The book is interspersed with extended commentary. For example, after the question on the candidates' positions on race relations, there follows a discussion on how the Rodney King verdict catapulted this issue into national prominence. Other topics include Americans' perceptions on national health care; abortion; drinking and drug use; and Watergate, 20 years after it happened.