Poll: Most Tulsans happy with trash service

Tulsans are happy with their trash service, but they don’t want to pay more for it, a new poll shows. The Mayor’s Task Force on Refuse and Recycling commissioned SoonerPoll.com to conduct the survey to help determine the future of the city’s trash and recycling collection, as all of the service contracts are set to [...]

Most agree campaign contributions should be limited, despite viewing money as political speech

A poll conducted by SoonerPoll reveals that 80.9 percent of Oklahomans believe that money is a form of political speech.  Although most Oklahomans agree that money is a form of speech, most still feel the need for greater restrictions that are not generally associated with speech. An overwhelming 81 percent of Oklahomans believe there should [...]

Immigration reform supported by Oklahomans, poll shows

Oklahomans are all for stricter immigration laws but might be more open than rhetoric suggests to letting those already in the country illegally stay, the latest Oklahoma Poll found. More than three-quarters of the 755 Oklahomans surveyed by SoonerPoll.com July 16-21 said they favor allowing illegal immigrants to remain if they admit they broke the [...]

Education funding measure supported, Oklahoma Poll shows

Almost two-thirds of Oklahomans favor tying public education funding to a regional average, the latest Oklahoma Poll shows. Sixty-five percent of the 755 people surveyed July 16-21 said they support State Question 744, a controversial measure set for the Nov. 2 general election ballot that would amend the state Constitution to require per-pupil spending to [...]

Poll: Confidence in Oklahoma economy up

Oklahomans’ confidence in the state’s economy has grown in the past six months even as their outlook on their own finances and the nation’s remained tepid, the latest Oklahoma Poll shows. “Jobs are hard to find here, but I think our economy is better than the national economy,” said Sandra Blackwell, a disabled retiree from [...]

Most view tea party movement favorably

Oklahomans like what is being served but may not be ready to sit at the same table, a poll finds. Oklahomans are sympathetic to the tea party movement but not necessarily eager to become involved with it, a recent Oklahoma Poll shows. Fifty-six percent of the 755 likely voters surveyed July 16-21 said they viewed [...]

Tulsa World: ‘Coin of the realm’

A civics lesson within a civics test Last year I hammered the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in two columns and a couple of blogs after it touted a telephone poll that showed three out of four Oklahoma high school students couldn’t correctly identify the first president of the United States. The poll — conducted [...]

Oklahomans don’t like President Barack Obama

Oklahomans don’t like President Barack Obama. A lot. Obama’s Oklahoma Poll approval rating fell to 27 percent in July, the lowest for any elected official in the 17-year history of the survey. The previous low for an elected official was former Gov. David Walters’ 33 percent in both 1993 and 1994. The previous low for [...]