CBS News State of the Union Poll, September 1990

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Label

CBS News State of the Union Poll, September 1990

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• CBS News

Author

• CBS News

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• Intervention (International law)
• Persian Gulf War
• Quayle, Dan
• Reagan Administration (1981-1989)
• Soviet Union
• United States Congress
• access to information
• combat
• demographic characteristics
• economic sanctions
• foreign policy
• invasion
• Bush Administration (1989-1993)
• media coverage
• military intervention
• national economy
• party preferences
• presidential performance
• public opinion
• survey
• terrorist attack
• voter behavior
• voter preferences
• war casualties
• marital status
• Bush, George H.W
• Gorbachev, Mikhail
• International relations

Genre

• survey

Summary

This survey focuses on specific issues related to the United States' involvement in the Persian Gulf War, along with general topics such as the Bush presidency, whether the United States was heading in the right direction, foreign policy, Congress, and the economy. Respondents were asked about President Bush's handling of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, if the United States did the right thing by starting military actions against Iraq rather than waiting to see if economic sanctions worked, if there was personal concern over a possible terrorist attack in the United States, whether the war was a mistake, and whether the war was likely to be worth the cost in human life and resources. Respondents also offered opinions regarding their pride or lack of pride in the United States' actions in the Persian Gulf, the expected length of the war and number of casualties, and how the war was going for the United States. In addition, the survey posed a series of questions dealing with media coverage of the war and the possible holding back of information by the military, the involvement of women in ground combat, personal effects of the war on respondents, Israel's response to Iraqi missile attacks, effects of the war on the United States' economy and on the Bush administration's ability to deal with domestic problems, support for Gorbachev vs. support for Lithuania's breaking away from the Soviet Union, Bush's first two years in office compared to Reagan's, Dan Quayle, and the probability of voting for Bush or the Democratic candidate in 1992. Background information on respondents includes political alignment, education, religion, age, race, sex, employment, perspectives on homemaking, family members serving in the Persian Gulf or elsewhere, choice for president in 1988, voter registration status, marital status, and state/region of residence