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December 18, 1999

SECTION:
POLL READINGS; Pg. 3640; Vol. 31, No. 51-52

LENGTH: 605 words

HEADLINE: Poll Readings for Dec. 18, 1999

BODY:

Views on the American Scene

The Bottom Line?

Do you think you are better off today than you were before
President Clinton was elected? (margin of error +-3
percentage points; Opinion Dynamics Corp. for Fox News
Channel)

12/7/99
Yes 54%
No 34
Not sure 12

Do you think the country is better off than it was when
President Clinton was elected? (+-3 percentage points;
Opinion Dynamics-Fox)

12/7/99
Yes 61%
No 28
Not sure 11

Madam President

Would you be willing to vote for a female presidential
candidate? (+-3 percentage points; Gallup Organization Inc.)

11/7/99 1969 1949
Yes 92% 53% 48%
No 7 40 48
Not sure 1 7 4

Tech the Halls

Have you ever purchased anything over the Internet? If so,
how many purchases have you made over the Internet? (+-3
percentage points; Opinion Dynamics for Fox)

2/27/98 12/8/99
None 82% 70%
One-five 12 17
Six-10 2 5
More than 10 4 7
Not sure 1

Do you think Internet companies should be required to
collect sales taxes from their customers? (+-3 percentage
points; Opinion Dynamics for Fox)

12/8/99

All Internet shoppers
Yes 49% 38%
No 42 55
Not sure 9 7

Millennial Musings

How would you rate the importance of each of the following
20th-century events? (+-3 percentage points; Gallup)

11/7/99

One of the Important Somewhat Not
Don't

most important important important
know
World War II 71% 21% 5% 2% 1%
Women's obtaining the right to vote 66 20
11 3
The atom bombing of Hiroshima 66 20 9
4 1
The Holocaust during World War II 65 20 9
5 1
The passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 58 26
13 2 1
World War I 53 28 11 5 3
Man's landing on the moon 50 30 15 5

The assassination of President Kennedy 50 29
15 5 1
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 48 30
19 3
The Great Depression 48 29 18 3
2
The breakup of the Soviet Union 46 31 19
3 1
The Vietnam War 37 31 20 11 1
Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight 27 33
28 11 1
The launch of the sputniks 25 34 28
12 1
The Korean War 21 36 32 10 1
The Persian Gulf War 18 38 32 11
1
The impeachment of President Clinton 15 25
24 35 1
The Watergate scandal 14 32 34 19
1

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