Reference Shelf 

Polling Report.Com
This is an independent, nonpartisan resource on American public opinion published in Washington, D.C.  This site identifies public opinion on a wide variety of issues facing the public, such as, taxes, violence, and candidates for 2000. 

Public Opinion Surveys 
This site contains a list of public opinion polls on a variety of issues.  The site has national opinion survey from Gallup, the NY Times, the National opinion Research Center, and Roper, It also lists regional polling organizations and some corss-national surveys. 

Public Opinion Polls on the WWW 
This site has information on polling including an historical overview of polling, 20 questions journalist(and everyone else for that matter) should ask before accepting the reliability of a poll, guidelines for doing research and the methodology of polling. 

National Election Studies 
A site that provides access to tables and graphs that identify public opinion on a variety of issues such as, social and religious characteristics of voters, partisanship, ideology, and candidate choices. 

Online Survey Research 
This site rates survey sites by states.  It has a list that includes the major resource centers in the United States.  It not only lists but rates the research capacity of most of the major centers doing survey research in the United States.  There is also a list of research centers in other countries. 

Public Opinion Polls on the Internet
List of polls that contain data that can be found on the Internet.  List includes opinion research organizations as well as media outlets.

Here are a list of public opinion polling organizations:
http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/library/sosci_opinion.htm

Public Opinion Quarterly
Leading journal in the field.  It has been around since systematic polling started.  It contains scholarly articles on a variety of polling topics.  It is available through jstor.