IPOL: Iowa Policy and Opinion Lab

Data from a recently recovered Iowa Poll from 1974 show that half of Iowans disapproved of then-President Nixon’s job performance just one month before he resigned from office following the Watergate scandal. These results come from Iowa Poll #213, which interviewed a random sample of 601 Iowans in July of 1974. The resulting data has been restored as part of IPOL’s work to recover lost data from past Iowa polls.

Iowa Poll results from 1974, conducted by the Des Moines Register, measured Iowans’ approval or disapproval of Congress’s performance during a time of political uncertainty and public distrust in government institutions. The results, recently restored as part of IPOL’s work to recover lost data from past Iowa polls, show broad dissatisfaction with Congress, especially among men.

A majority of Iowans in 1974 reported wages and salaries were not keeping pace with inflation, according to newly recovered data. These results are based on Iowa Poll #213, a random survey of 601 residents of Des Moines, Iowa, conducted in July 1974. The data has been digitized as part of a broader IPOL initiative aimed at recovering lost data from previous Iowa public opinion polls.

Data restored from a 1974 survey indicates that the majority of Iowans identified the major problem facing the United States at the time to be inflation and economics. These results come from Iowa Poll #213, a random sample survey of 601 Iowans in July of 1974 restored as part of IPOL’s work to recover lost data from past Iowa polls.