ABC News/Washington Post Monthly Poll, September 2008

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Label

ABC News/Washington Post Monthly Poll, September 2008

Creator

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

Contributor

• The Washington Post

Author

• The Washington Post
• ABC News

Contributor

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

Subject

• Palin, Sarah
• Presidents -- Election
• Republican Party (USA)
• attitudes
• conservatism
• economic conditions
• investments
• liberalism
• national economy
• personal finances
• political campaigns
• Democratic Party (USA)
• presidential candidates
• presidential elections
• presidential performance
• public opinion
• stocks
• survey
• voter attitudes
• voter preferences
• voting behavior
• political debate
• Economic history
• Finance, Personal
• McCain, John
• Obama, Barack

Genre

• survey

Summary

This poll, fielded September 19-22, 2008, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. A national sample of 1,082 adults was surveyed, including oversamples of African Americans for a total of 163 African American respondents. Respondents were asked whether the Democratic or Republican party could be trusted to do a better job coping with the main problems the nation would face over the next few years, whether things in the country were going in the right direction, and how concerned they were about the national economy. Respondents were also asked how closely they were following the 2008 presidential race, their opinions of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, their opinion of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, for whom they would vote in the general election in November, which candidate had the best chance of getting elected, and how comfortable respondents would be with a president who was African American or a president over the age of 72. Respondents identifying with the Democratic party, were asked for whom they originally voted for to be the party nominee: Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Economic topics addressed how concerned respondents were that they could maintain their current standard of living, the most difficult economic issue affecting their family, particularly personal finances, the stock market, and the ability to obtain bank loans. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, marital status, political party affiliation, voter registration status and participation history, political philosophy, education level, religious preference, military service, household income, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), home ownership and whether respondents considered themselves to be a born-again Christian