Tulsa World: Income-tax cut support ‘depends’

BY RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer Whether Oklahomans want a state income tax cut depends, it appears, on how they are asked. When SoonerPoll.com asked 504 likely voters last week whether they would support such a cut, 61 percent said yes. That support faded quickly, however, when the question was changed to whether they would [...]

Tulsa World: State voters evenly split on open carry

BY RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer Oklahomans remain evenly divided about whether civilians should be able to carry openly displayed sidearms, an Oklahoma Poll conducted in the past week has found. Forty-six percent of the 504 likely voters surveyed May 6-10 supported open carry, with 42 percent opposing it. The poll’s margin of error is [...]

UPDATED: Oklahoma Watch: Transferring tax breaks raises concerns state’s residents

(UPDATED 3/28/2012 to include a SoonerPoll.TV interview with Rep. David Dank about Oklahoma voters’ opinions on tax credits and the work being done by the Oklahoma Task Force on Tax Credits and Economic Incentives.)   Rep. David Dank talks about tax credits and the Oklahoma Task Force on Tax Credits and Economic Incentives On February [...]

Tulsa World: Guthrie now gets good reviews in Oklahoma

By Randy Krehbiel World Staff Writer Oklahomans seem to be of two minds about Woody Guthrie. They either like him, or they never heard of him. Responding to a recent SoonerPoll.com survey, 52 percent of the 500 Oklahomans questioned said they have a favorable opinion of the Depression Era troubadour – but 41 percent had [...]

Tulsa World: Gingrich leads GOP poll in Oklahoma

By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is a clear leader for the Republican presidential nomination among members of the Oklahoma GOP, according to a SoonerPoll.com survey released this weekend. The poll was not commissioned by any political candidate or party and was not paid for by the [...]

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 [...]

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