Sooner Survey: Volume 36 No. 3 ⎸June 2, 2025 ⎸Just over a year before the Republican primary for Governor, Attorney General Gentner Drummond has taken a commanding lead over others who have either entered or who are rumored to be running for the GOP nomination. At 39%, Drummond has a 27-point lead over the nearest rival, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters while Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell is the only other candidate in double-digits (10%). Almost a third remain undecided (31%).

Sooner Survey: Volume 36 No. 2 ⎸May 27, 2025 ⎸Only three Democrats have held federal office in Oklahoma this century. Put another way, out of the 175 office-holder years (seven seats for 25 years each) only 14 of those years have been filled by Democrats, and those seats are not the same today as they were when they were held by Democrats.

Sooner Survey: Volume 36 No. 1 ⎸February 18, 2025 ⎸Astute observers know a poll is but a snapshot in time. Too often, they are used as a predictor, when reality is, they are providing the current state of play and provide data for understanding the current political environs. And the current state of play in Oklahoma reveals Gentner Drummond currently dominates the landscape and is becoming better defined every day.

Sooner Survey: Volume 33 No. 6 ⎸August 20, 2021 ⎸Fully 82% of Oklahoma voters have some level of awareness of “Critical Race Theory, also known as CRT” and among that 82%, almost twice as many oppose (58%) it being taught in public schools than support it (30%).  Furthermore, when CRT is explained in a way used in a national study, only 19% of all Oklahomans think it should be taught in our elementary schools.

Sooner Survey: Volume 35 No. 6 ⎸September 25, 2023 | The last 20 years have seen remarkable changes in the image of tribes and tribal governments in Oklahoma.  In 2002, we asked a question that asked voters if Oklahoma’s tribes were an asset or had outlived their usefulness.  At that time, just over half (53%) saw them as an asset while a third held the opposite view. 

Sooner Survey: Volume 35 No.5 ⎸September 12, 2023 | Earlier this year, I was called on one of my sayings “that’s less popular than burning the American flag” when I was asked just how popular or unpopular such an act of protest is in Oklahoma. So, being the data nerd I am, I decided to find out.