IPOL: Iowa Policy and Opinion Lab

IPOL students presented a research poster with some of our findings from Iowa Poll #213 from 1974 in Chicago at the Midwest Political Science Association's annual meeting.

Results from Iowa Poll #213, which was conducted about a month before President Richard Nixon’s resignation from office, revealed that Iowans were largely split on whether impeachment proceedings would have a serious impact on Nixon’s ability to handle various issues. Data from Iowa Poll #213, a random sample survey of 601 Iowans in July of 1974, has recently been restored by students in IPOL.

Results from Iowa Poll #213, which was conducted about a month before President Richard Nixon’s resignation from office, revealed that a majority of Iowans had read or heard some, but not all the Nixon transcripts. Data from Iowa Poll #213, a random sample survey of 601 Iowans in July of 1974, has recently been restored by students in IPOL.

Data restored from a 1974 survey indicates that only half of Iowans felt that common news sources reporting on the contents of the transcripts of President Nixon’s audio recordings did so fairly. 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.