THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Which Party Best Able to Handle Most Important Problem  1972-2000


                           '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00 
 
                Democrats   24   **   34   17   10   29   24   23   23   **   39   16   23   27   27 
      Not Much Difference   42   **   46   60   43   44   43   54   53   **   47   54   57   56   46 
              Republicans   25   **   12   16   40   22   31   18   21   **   13   28   20   16   22 
        Don't Know, Other   10   **    8    7    7    5    2    5    3   **    2    2    0    1    5
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                       N  1030      2224 2153 1346 1342 1830 2075 1698      1990 1737  741 1158  863  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 2B.3
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     (IF R HAS MENTIONED A 'MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM' IN THE NATION:)
     "Which political party do you think would be most likely to get the
     government to do a better job in dealing with this problem (1972: to
     be helpful on this problem) --the Republicans, the Democrats, or
     wouldn't there be much difference between them?"
       


     This question is variable VCF9012 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
     Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation.
     Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation).

     Table generated:  05AUG10