Oklahoma’s public opinion pollster
Oklahoma’s public opinion pollster
BY BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer Tulsans for the most part like the new trash and recycling system that was implemented a month ago, a new poll shows. An Oklahoma Poll of 311 likely city voters, conducted Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, indicates 29 percent strongly approve of the service, while 26 percent somewhat approve, 14 percent were uncertain, 7 percent somewhat disapprove and 24 percent strongly disapprove. The margin of error is plus or minus 5.56 percentage points. Soonerpoll.com’s Bill Shapard said that, since the full system only went into effect Oct 1., the
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BY BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer Mayor Dewey Bartlett and former Mayor Kathy Taylor are nearly even in support from Tulsans as to who they would vote to be the next mayor, a new Tulsa World poll shows. An Oklahoma Poll of 311 city voters, conducted Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, supplied a list of potential mayoral candidates’ names and asked, if the election were held today, who they would choose. Bartlett got 24 percent to Taylor’s 22 percent. Former City Councilor Bill Christiansen, who has announced his candidacy, received 11 percent, followed by former
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BY BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer An overwhelming number of Tulsans are ready to support an extension of the Fix Our Streets tax program, a new Tulsa World poll shows. An Oklahoma Poll of 311 likely city voters, conducted Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, indicates a renewal of the streets initiative has 74 percent support, with 14 percent opposed and 12 percent uncertain. The margin of error is plus or minus 5.56 percentage points. SoonerPoll.com’s Bill Shapard said it’s obvious residents see the continuation of Fix Our Streets as a solution to the city’s street
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BY BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer Vision2′s quality-of-life Proposition 2 appears to be headed to victory in Tuesday’s election, while the fate of Proposition 1 with its airport industrial complex upgrades and deal-closing fund is uncertain, a new Tulsa World poll shows. An Oklahoma Poll of 440 likely voters, conducted Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, indicates Proposition 2 will pass with 58 percent support, compared with 31 percent against and 11 percent undecided. Proposition 1 has 45 percent support, with 38 percent against and 17 percent undecided. The margin of error is plus or minus
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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 three days after Gingrich’s victory in the South Carolina primary pushed him to the front of the GOP presidential field. The focus group included six men and five women. Four identified themselves as Gingrich supporters, two for Mitt Romney, one
Read More »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, we have a rather good track record with our pre-election poll results in comparison to election day and, given that fact, its probably easy for us to conduct this type of analysis. However, we have even been wrong a few times and written
Read More »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 by voters in 2008, with the work to wrap up in 2014. Those polled were asked whether they approve or disapprove of how the work is progressing. A large majority – 64 percent – said they somewhat-to-strongly approve, while
Read More »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 the plan, while 45 percent somewhat to strongly support it. SoonerPoll.com CEO Bill Shapard, whose firm did polling on Tulsa trash issues last year for a mayor’s task force, said he thinks the new results are positive news for the
Read More »Various reports of national poll results:
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Loretta Cypress says: Being a young and diverse country means we do not yet share a common view on divisive social issues ...
admin says: Judith, keep in mind that this particular poll was conducted more than a year ago. While the most r...
