Most recent poll shows Mike Hunter leads Gentner Drummond in Republican run-off
Current Attorney General Mike Hunter leads private attorney and former Air Force pilot Gentner Drummond by 9.5 points in the run-off election poll commissioned by News9/Newson6.
News9/Newson6 will host a debate of the two candidates this Tuesday night.
Still, 32.3 percent remain undecided in the race. The election is August 28th.
Hunter, who is from the Oklahoma City area, led Drummond by the largest margin in the OKC metro area by more than 19 points, 44.7 to 25.5 percent. Drummond, who is from the Tulsa area, trailed Hunter just under seven points in the Tulsa metro area.
Rural Republicans were the most undecided at 38.4 percent, but Hunter still led 33.4 to Drummond's 28.2 percent.
[QUESTION] If the Republican primary run-off for State Attorney General was today and you were standing in the voting booth right now, for whom would you vote? [READ IN ROTATED ORDER]
1. Mike Hunter 38.6%
2. Gentner Drummond 29.1
3. Undecided/not sure [DNR] 32.3
Hunter led among those that attend church more than weekly and those that attend weekly, as well as evangelical voters.
Hunter led by the greater margin among Republican men, 40.4 to 27.1 percent for Drummond, and by a small margin among Republican women, 37 to 30.8 percent.
About the Poll
SoonerPoll.com, Oklahoma’s public opinion pollster, conducted the poll of Oklahoma likely voters, which was commissioned by News9 and Newson6.
The scientific study was conducted July 18-20, 2018 with 483 likely Republican voters selected at random statewide from a 5-frame of SoonerPoll's own online panel, Research Now's voter panel, cell phones and landline telephones. For cell phone and landline telephones, voters are selected at random from SoonerPoll's voter database and matched with cell and landline phone numbers. Cell phone participants are collected using live interviewers and landline participants are collected using both live interviewer and IVR (Interactive Voice Response) technology. The sample was weighted by age, gender, and congressional district in order to reflect the Oklahoma likely voter population.
The sample reflects the traditional demographical profile of the Oklahoma likely voter with roughly half of respondents identifying as conservative. The study has a Margin of Error (MoE) of ±4.46 percent.
