Oklahoma’s public opinion pollster
Oklahoma’s public opinion pollster
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, turned off highway lights, grounded police helicopters, and suspension of the removal of graffiti and the mowing of public property. Even with city employees being furloughed eight days and the previous administration having spent 80% of the city’s reserve fund
Read More »According to a poll taken by Sooner Poll in late November/early December, Oklahomans favor a flat tax over the current state personal income tax system. Nearly sixty percent of likely voters polled said they preferred just one marginal rate. Voters registered Republican preferred simplifying the system over those registered Democrat and Independent. The state income tax has been at the forefront of Governor Fallin and the Oklahoma Republican legislature agenda for the upcoming 2012 session. They want to eliminate the state income tax over an extended period of time- something like 10 years. They claim
Read More »By Brian Brus Oklahoma City reporter – Journal Record OKLAHOMA CITY – This might be the year that Oklahoma’s conservative claim to fame could actually give the state an important role to play in presidential politics, pundits said. “Thank God the states that have held primaries prior to us have been unable to make a clear choice,” said Bill Shapard, CEO of SoonerPoll.com. “Because that’s the only way Oklahoma may play any role at all. “In fact, I think that being one of the reddest states, Okahoma ought to play a greater role in the
Read More »By Brandon Dutcher, OCPA Ever wonder why local school boards often represent their constituents poorly? It’s because most of Oklahoma’s center-right majority doesn’t vote in school-board elections. In a speech last year at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels explained why Indiana decided to move its local school board elections from the spring to the fall. In the spring, he said, “nobody votes. It’s a lot easier to dominate, for a small or for an interest group to dominate the outcome and elect a friendly school-board in the sparsely attended primary elections.”
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Last week, State Representative Jason Murphy, (R-Guthrie), Chairman of the House Government Modernization Committee, said he plans to introduce a Joint Resolution in the next legislative session which would place a state question on the November 2012 ballot amending the State Constitution to allow for the State Auditor to have that authority. “It is vital for the State Auditor to have the tools to thoroughly expose the inefficient and antiquated processes that are conducive to wasting taxpayer funds and corruption,” Murphey said. “Current policy subjects the ability of the Auditor to conduct performance audits to
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
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By Josh Brecheen, The Conservative Voice Conservative and liberal Oklahomans agree on something of significant substance – our state wastes too much money. SoonerPoll surveyed 587 likely voters from July to August 2011 and asked the following question: “Do you think that Oklahoma State Government wastes a lot of money we pay in taxes, wastes some of it, or doesn’t waste very much of it?” The response was as follows: 51% said “Wastes a Lot”, 36% said “Wastes some”, 8% said “Doesn’t waste very much”, 2% had no opinion or were neutral, and 3% refused
Read More »The national debt currently stands at over $14.7 trillion, and that sum causes great concern to Oklahomans, regardless of political affiliation. By the same token, an overwhelming majority of Oklahomans support a constitutional amendment to require a balanced federal budget. SoonerPoll recently conducted a survey that asked respondents’ thoughts on the national debt, and on a balanced budget amendment, and I think you’ll find the results to be interesting. Here in Oklahoma, support for requiring the federal budget to be balanced has broad appeal. 76.2% of those polled supported such a measure, while just 17.7%
Read More »Given all the recent conservative political rhetoric in Oklahoma and elsewhere suggesting public employees are overpaid and receive too much in benefits, such as health insurance and retirement, it would be easy to conclude that this idea would have at least decent support among residents here. That’s why it’s surprising that SoonerPoll’s most recent survey found strong disagreement with the notion that state employees are overpaid and overcompensated with benefits. In fact, more than 80 percent of those polled disagreed with the overall argument. The two questions I posed in the survey were simple. The
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Various reports of national poll results:
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Jeannie Weslery says: Gov, Fallen with not have a high approve if she continues to support Equine Slaughter. She and the r...
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...
