PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH.

This article presents the proceedings of the fifty-ninth annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). AAPOR focused on "The Image of Public Opinion Research" as a record-breaking 846 researchers gathered May 13-16, 2004 at its fifty-ninth annual conference at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. The call for papers, posters, roundtables, and panel sessions, issued in October 2003, yielded 390 abstracts for papers and poster presentations, 21 panel proposals, and 9 roundtable proposals. At least three members of the conference committee reviewed each proposal. The results of that review allowed a higher rejection rate than last year and a subsequent return to the format of earlier years, paper sessions, panels, roundtables, and posters. A number of events helped people attend to the conference theme, beginning with an invited session Friday morning dealing with issues of primary polling in the 2004 election. There were two sessions Friday afternoon dealing with the conference theme, both focusing on how people perceive polls and public opinion researchers.