CBS News National Poll, June #2, 2011

This poll, fielded June 17-20, 2011, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way Barack Obama was handling his job as president and whether things in the country were on the right track. Multiple questions addressed the 2012 Republican presidential candidates including respondents' overall opinions toward several of the candidates. Additional topics included gay marriage, NASA, sunscreen use, holidays, seasons, summer activities, cyber-attacks, Mormonism, psychiatric visits, drug use among athletes, television, fictional characters, the Statue of Liberty, Pippa Middleton, Osama bin Laden, health, as well as knowledge of and relationship to an individual killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, education level, household income, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians, marital status, employment status, number of children, number of people in household between the ages of 18 and 29 years old, political party affiliation, political philosophy, and voter registration status.