GROUP THERMOMETER INTRO

1964-1968:
There are many groups in America that try to get the government or the
American people to see things more their way.  We would like to get
your feelings towards some of these groups.  I have here a card on
which there is something that looks like a thermometer.  We call it a
"feeling thermometer" because it measures your feelings towards
groups. Here's how it works. If you don't know too much about a group
or don't feel particularly warm or cold toward them, then you should
place them in the middle, at the 50 degree mark.  If you have a warm
feeling toward a group or feel favorably toward it, you would give it
a score somewhere between 50 degrees and 100 degrees, depending on how
warm your feeling is toward the group.  On the other hand, if you
don't feel very favorably toward some of these groups--if there are
some you don't care for too much--then you would place them somewhere
between 0 degrees and 50 degrees.
1970-1974:
(1970: As you know, there are many groups and persons in America that
try to get the government or the American people to see things more
their way. Please use the thermometer again--this time to indicate
your feelings toward these groups or persons.)  (1972,1974: We'd also
like to get your feelings about some groups in American society, using
the feeling thermometer just as we did for the [1972: candidates;
1974: leaders]. If we come to a group you don't know much about, just
tell me and we'll move on to the next one.)  
1976:  
We'd also like to get your feelings about some groups in American 
society.  When I read the name of a group, we'd like you to rate it with 
what we call a feeling thermometer.  Ratings between 50 degrees-100 
degrees mean that you feel favorably and warm toward the group; ratings 
between 0 and 50 degrees mean that you don't feel favorably towards the 
group and that you don't care too much for that group.  If you don't 
feel particularly warm or cold toward a group you would rate them at 50 
degrees.  If we come to a group you don't know much about, just tell me 
and we'll move on to the next one.
1978-1984:  
(1980-1984: And still using the thermometer, how would you rate the 
following.)  
1986-LATER:  
([And] still using the thermometer, how would you rate [the following]:)

NOTES:
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GENERAL NOTE FOR ALL GROUP THERMOMETERS:
Card or respondent booklet shown to R exc. 2000 telephone, 2002.
In all Pre-Post study years except 1968 and 1976, group thermometers
followed (within the same wave, if not immediately) the series of 
thermometers for specific political figures, so that R was asked to 
recall the "explanation" of the thermometer.  In 1968 and 1976 only, 
group thermometers appeared in a separate wave.
1964 NOTE:
"Don't knows" were coded 50 on thermometers; groups about which the 
respondent "didn't know much" were also placed at 50 degrees
1966 NOTE:
same as 1964.
1968 NOTE:
same as 1964.
1970 NOTE:
The  order in which group thermometers were asked varied by form.
1970-1976 NOTE:
The respondent was not asked to give thermometer ratings for groups 
about which R "didn't know much" or "didn't know too much."  However, 
it is unclear whether such cases were coded DK or NA.
1996 NOTE:
Group thermometers were administered in random order.
1998 NOTE:
same as 1996.
2000 NOTE:
same as 1996.
2002 NOTE:
Group thermometers were randomly assigned to one of two possible 
orderings.
2004 note:
same as 1996.