Howdy again.
     To amplify on my earlier GayNet post on the National Election Study data
from late 1992, here's a list of several different groups folks were asked to
rate on that "feeling thermometer."  100 is the "warmest" possible feeling, 0
the "coldest," and 50 is neutral.  I list as well the percentage of the
sample answering each thermometer question which gave an extreme answer,
either 0 (lowest possible) or 100 (highest possible).

                              Mean      % saying  % saying
                              score     zero      100
                              =====     =======   =======
     Whites                   71.1       0.3      16.0
     The police               69.7       1.0      11.0
     The military             69.4       0.7      13.9
     The poor                 69.1       0.1      13.9
     Environmentalists        67.4       0.9      12.2
     Catholics                65.9       0.8      10.7
     Blacks                   65.1       0.9      11.4
     The women's movement     61.4       2.3       8.4
     Conservatives            55.7       1.0       3.0
     Big business             54.7       2.1       3.2
     Fundamentalists          53.2       3.3       8.3
     Labor unions             52.7       4.9       5.6
     Liberals                 50.3       3.9       1.9
     People on welfare        50.1       3.6       2.0
     Gays and lesbians        39.2      22.1       1.9

     For the quantoids among us, these data are from the 1992 post-election
survey cdonducted in November and December of last year for the American
National Election Study, run by the Survey Research Center of the University
of Michigan.  Total number of respondents at 2,487.  Figures represent means
and valid percentages of weighted data ("valid" meaning that folks who gave
no response to a particular question were excluded in computing the
percentages).

Peace,
Mark