Tulsa World: Republican focus group likes Newt Gingrich over all

By Randy Krehbiel World Staff Writer Newt Gingrich’s charisma and intelligence may trump all other considerations for Tulsa-area Republicans, a focus group of likely voters in the March 6 GOP primary indicated last week. The 11 registered Republicans with a history of voting in primary elections were assembled by SoonerPoll.com at the Tulsa World offices [...]

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, [...]

Tulsa World Poll shows most Tulsans still have faith in police department

By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer The most recent Oklahoma Poll suggests that a long-running corruption investigation has caused little if any damage to the Tulsa Police Department’s reputation with the public. Seventy percent of the 508 Tulsans surveyed said they were satisfied that Tulsa police are “honest, ethical and professional in carrying out their [...]

Tulsa World Poll shows strong support for Tulsa’s Fix Our Streets program

By BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer Most Tulsans are happy with the way the $451.6 million Fix Our Streets effort is going and will vote to renew the improvements tax package when it’s time, a new Tulsa World-sponsored poll showed. The effort to rebuild and repair the city’s crumbling arterial and residential streets was approved [...]

Tulsa World Poll:Tulsans split on trash pickup changes

By Brian Barber Tulsa World Staff Writer Tulsans are evenly divided over plans to switch to a trash system in which carts would be issued and collection could go to once a week for the entire city, a new Tulsa World-sponsored poll shows. Of those in the scientific survey, 46 percent somewhat to strongly oppose [...]

Oklahoma Poll: Tulsa lacks leadership

By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer Dissatisfaction with the city’s leadership is at a four-year high, according to the most recent Oklahoma Poll. Thirty-four percent of the 508 likely Tulsa voters surveyed Oct. 27-Nov. 1 named lack of political leadership the city’s No. 1 problem, easily putting it at the top of the list. It’s [...]

Poll shows most would pick another candidate over Bartlett

By BRIAN BARBER & P.J. LASSEK World Staff Writers Mayor Dewey Bartlett won’t face re-election until 2013, but a new Tulsa World-sponsored poll shows that, if the election happened today, 58 percent of Tulsans would vote for another candidate. The scientific survey indicates 26 percent would vote for Bartlett, while 16 percent didn’t know or [...]

Tulsa World Poll: Poll finds voters split on campaigning by police, firefighters

By Randy Krehbiel – Tulsa World Staff Writer A Tulsa firefighter campaigns during a city election in July 2009. [News on 6 file photo] Tulsans are split almost evenly over whether firefighters and other city employees should have been allowed to actively campaign in this year’s city elections. Mayor Dewey Bartlett issued an executive order [...]

Tulsa World Poll: Majority oppose City Charter changes

By P.J. LASSEK & BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writers Tulsans may be fed up with City Hall controversies, but a new Tulsa World-sponsored poll indicates a majority of voters aren’t ready to adopt a council-city manager form of government or to add at-large councilors to the current structure. But they do support with slight majorities [...]

Herman Cain wins Stephens County GOP presidential straw poll

Herman Cain edges out Sarah Palin to win the first Stephens County GOP presidential straw poll conducted by SoonerPoll.  Cain, the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, won 66 out of 302 votes cast in the presidential preference poll of Stephens County GOP Fish Fry attendees. That narrowly beat second-place finisher Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, [...]

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