The NEW YORK TIMES National Surveys, 1983 - Department of ...

The NEW YORK TIMES
PATRIOTISM SURVEY
Marginals and Trends
JUNE 1316 1983 NOVEMBER 1822.1983
N-:.145 N-1.093
AII trends from Now York Times/CBS News Pou urhrs otherwise spedfied. Trends from the
September 14 Plane SUVOY are marked ~th an asterisk Trends from the cktober 1983 Lebanon/
Grenudu Survey rofkt tie total of both the before and a&or speech aamphs.
1. Do you appmve or disapprove of the way Ronald Reagan L handling his job as President?
d/83 11/8S
1 Approve 88
2 Disapprove :: a0
@ DK/NA 13 13
4/81 6/81 9/81 l/82 3/82 5/82 9/82 l/83 4/83 6/83 g/83*9/83 lo/83
1 Appmve 67 59 53 49 43 43 43 41 43 47 46 46 49
t %A- 18 15 23 18 33 14 36 14 42 IS 44 13 44 13 47 12 45 12 39 13 39 15 41 14 37 14
2. Do you feel things in the country are oenemlly going in the right dkection. or do you feel things
huve gotten off on the wrong track?
l/83 6/m ll/aa
1 Right-on 34 47 47
2 wrong Track 59 44 43
I DK/NA 6 0 10
2 What muke or brand of cur does your family drive?
/ American
;Z Foreign
3Both
4 Nocar
q DK/NA
4. I have some questions about how you’d rate the way things am going in the United States. 01 a
scale of one to ted one were the wont possible situation, and ten were the best possible
dtuohon-what number would you give to the way things are going in the United States at the
present time?
11/x 6/81 6/55 11/83 (Cd& yt+-
4.83 5.20
5. Where would you say the United States was five years ago? Remember. one is the worst possible
situotlon and ten is the best possible situaiion.
6/W
75
11
t
4
11/x 6/81 11/83
Mean 6.47 5.67 5.71 5.48
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