Public Opinion Polls

Media Polls

ABC News Polling Unit: back to 1997
CBS News Polls: back to April 1998
CNN ALL POLITICS: back to April 2000
Fox News Polls:  back to 2005
Los Angeles Times Poll: back to 1992
New York Times: back to 1996. Registration required -- free of charge.
Time Magazine SRBI Poll: back to 1999
USA Today: back to October 1998
Washington Post: back to January 1997

National Polls/ Academic and Non-Profit

Archives of the National Network of State Polls: contains over 350 state-level studies from 22 survey organizations in 19 states.
Gallup Organization: includes election information.
Harris Poll Online: provides polls since 1999.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: Available on and off campus. Choose Reference, then Polls & Surveys for Roper polls.
National Election Studies: NES guide to public opinion and electoral behavior.
Opinion-Pages: provides access to current editorials, letters to the editor,commentaries and columnists from newspapers from the US, Canada and a few other countries.
Pew Research Center: the People and the Press: studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
PollingReport.com: independent resource on trends in American public opinion.
Public Agenda Online: information on the field of opinion research gathered from a variety of sources.
Public and Lobby Opinion on Legislative Issues
RasmussenReports.com: opinion data
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: located at the Univ. of Connecticut. The largest library of public opinion data.
Southern Opinion Research: private, independent survey research company in Tuscaloosa specializes in marketing, media and political surveys among other services.
USA Polling Group: a multi-disciplinary survey research center specializing in telephone surveys.

Public Opinion Associations

American Association for Public Opinion Research
Council of American Survey Research Organizations
European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research
National Council on Public Polls
National Network of State Polls
World Association for Public Opinion Research

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