Public Opinion Polls

20 Questions a Journalist Should Ask about PollResults
http://www.ncpp.org/?q=node/4
Contains questions that everyone should ask about polls and their results.

Gallup Organization
http://www.gallup.com/
Home of the Gallup Poll. Click on “Gallup Poll News Service” to view polls.

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
http://people-press.org/
“The Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.”

PollingReport.com
http://www.pollingreport.com/
Includes data from polls on politics, business and aspects of American lifestyles.

Social Issues

Michigan Electronic Library: Society & Social Issues Index
http://www.mel.org/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=187
A good directory of websites about social issues, chosen and evaluated by a social sciences librarian.

Internet Public Library: Social Issues and Social Welfare http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/soc80.00.00/

SocioWeb
http://www.socioweb.com/
Directory of sociological resources on the web by topic.

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Speeches

American Radio Works – Say It Plain
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/
Includes great African-American speeches of the past century.

American Rhetoric
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
This is a site devoted to public speaking and oratory in the U.S.

The History Place Great Speeches Collection http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm
This site includes links to transcripts of speeches from national and international historic political figures.

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