Internet Exercises Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
This is a comprehensive academic polling site. It includes an invaluable Presidential Job Performance site with "presidential approval" data from back in the 1930s to the present time.
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/ American Association for Public Opinion Research
An association of people interested in the methods, applications and analysis of public opinion and survey research. They publish the Public Opinion Quarterly.
http://www.aapor.org/ SySurvey
Provides links to internet resources dedicated to public opinion surveys related to government.
http://www.sysurvey.com/links.asp#Government Princeton Survey Research Center
Houses polling data from many public opinion research centers. Related links.
http://www.princeton.edu/~psrc/ Gallup Organization
The oldest and most famous public opinion pollster, and is still one of the most widely used and influential ones today. Some of their information is now limited to subscribers, but see their Daily Briefings on current events.
http://www.gallup.com/ Public Agenda
The nonpartisan Public Agenda's site provides opinions, analyses, and educational materials on current policy issues.
http://www.publicagenda.org/ Suggested Library of Congress Headings Public Opinion--United States
http://library.lib.asu.edu/search/dPublic+opinion+--+United+States./dpublic+opinion+united+states/-5,-1,0,B/browse Other LC Subject Headings Related to Public Opinion
http://library.lib.asu.edu/search/dpublic+opinion+/dpublic+opinion/1,2174,5047,B/aexact&dpublic+opinion&1,11 The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
A comparably influential non-profit organization with a wealth of studies on public opinion, including some on Global Attitudes of Americans in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack.
http://people-press.org/ The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
A specialist in polling on religious issues, including church-state issues and national election voting by religious persons.
http://pewforum.org/ Politics -- Beliefnet.com
This site is an excellent forum for surveying discussion of religion and politics.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/ PollingReport.com -- Public Opinion Online
This site is a mega-poll site with an extensive compilation of election and other frequently repeated polls.
http://www.pollingreport.com/ Monitoring the Future
This website provides results of surveys focused on young Americans. It also offers links to related sites.
http://monitoringthefuture.org/ The NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
This site is the extremely useful 50-year-long informational treasure chest from the National Election Studies at the University of Michigan. There are useful and easily read tips on use of this resource. This resource is widely used on public opinion chapters of introductory American government and politics textbooks.
http://www.electionstudies.org/ Professor Renka's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Public Opinion Polling
Explains the distinction between properly done scientific polls, and the numerous website and telephone polls that masquerade as properly done ones.
http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/renka/Renka_papers/polls.htm Mystery Pollster by Mark Blumenthal
Is devoted to "Demystifying the Science and Art of Political Polling" with an extensive blog and set of links on exit polls from 2004. You'll also find extensive links to other aspects of the American campaign and election system.
http://www.mysterypollster.com/ Statistical Resources on the Web-- Public Opinion--Political Science
From Grace York's University of Michigan Documents Center, this site has numerous links to the sites listed above plus more.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stpolisc.html#opinion | 