Oklahomans get their say.

‘A fool and his money are soon elected.’ Will Rogers Oklahoma got its say last night in presidential politics, but took a much different course than four years ago.  Conservative Rick Santorum won a plurality of the votes, beating the more moderate Mitt Romney by six points. Four years ago, it was the more moderate [...]

Tulsa: Open for Business

In a recent policy study from the Reason Foundation, Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett talks about tackling the city’s challenges and how it requires a willingness to embrace innovation, competition and market ideas. Upon taking office a year into a national recession, Bartlett was faced with reductions by the previous mayor in discontinued public safety academies, [...]

Poll: voters oppose the state government collecting public employee association dues

A majority of likely Oklahoma voters support removing the law that allows state employees the option of having their public employee association dues, formerly known as union dues, withheld from their paycheck, according to a recent SoonerPoll.com study. The study found that 56 percent of respondents would like to see the state government removed from [...]

Remember the poll that said…

Rarely do pollsters ever want to look back themselves or have anyone bring up their pre-election poll results AFTER the election. We do. You might be able to come up with several reasons why it should be done, but we believe the most important one is ACCOUNTABILITY, which seldom exists in the public opinion polling industry.  Yes, [...]

Who votes and who doesn’t

Youth Turnout Quick, who votes more: young people or senior citizens?  We all can quickly answer this question from what has become common knowledge, but the real question is by how much?  The answer to this question may surprise you. Would you believe that there are more Oklahomans under the age of 35 that are [...]

Why we poll likely voters

For anyone spending any time at all reading SoonerPoll.com, one will quickly notice that nearly all of our polls results are of likely voters, who by definition are most likely to turnout on election day and vote. There are other populations to consider like registered voters or the general population of Oklahoma, for that matter. [...]

Cell phones, GOP bias and Oklahoma

SoonerPoll, like every other pollster in the nation, is facing a new challenge due to the rise of cell phone only households.   The advent of cellular phones has made political polling more challenging, but not impossible. Land line telephones reached their highest penetration into homes in 1997 when 98 percent of homes had a land line [...]

Why Mary Fallin won

With any election year, pre-election polling plays the greatest role in helping us to understand ‘why’ a candidate won or lost.  As we look further into the data, this year is no different. Yes, there is a strong argument that can be made of the Republican tsunami fueled by anti-Obama and Obamacare sentiment, but still some [...]

Oklahomans Trend Conservative Following The National Elections, But Will The Trend Stick?

The line between conservative and moderate political ideology in Oklahoma became less visible during the 2008 party conventions and presidential election. A series of public opinion polls conducted by SoonerPoll and TvPoll from October of 2004 reveal that Oklahoma has been trending conservative, though the 2008 presidential campaign moderated that trend for the latter part [...]

Fallin, Edmondson Early Favorites For Governor In Latest SoonerPoll

The latest SoonerPoll of likely Oklahoma gubernatorial primary voters carries good news for Congresswoman Mary Fallin and Attorney General Drew Edmondson – both are favored to win their party nominations for governor. Fallin held a commanding 53.0%-31.1% lead over district 4 Congressman Tom Cole in the Republican primary sample, while state senator Randy Brogdon trailed. [...]

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