Sooner Survey: Volume 35 No.4 ⎸August 3, 2023 | Too often, politicians and others try to force choices when the reality is, voters want an all of the above.  One need look no further than criminal justice reform efforts.  It is a given, voters don’t want to lock-up those violating simple drug possession laws (they proved that by voting for SQ 780 in 2016).  But that does not mean they want a soft-on-crime approach.

Sooner Survey: Volume 35 No.3 ⎸July 13, 2023 | During the summer of the non-election year, attentions have been turning to national politics and the pending presidential contest of next year. In April, we released numbers (https://chs-inc.com/sooner-survey-trump-complicated/) showing Donald Trump’s popularity among Republicans, but with Ron DeSantis within striking distance.

Sooner Survey: Volume 35 No. 2 ⎸April 6, 2023 | One thing that most voters agree upon is that Donald Trump is a unique political figure. While many point to his style as what makes him unique, the coalition he has built is also a bit unusual. Trump’s coalition of populists and conservatives has created, or at least exacerbated, divides within the Republican party that are generally seen along income and geographic lines.

Sooner Survey: Volume 35 No. 1 ⎸March 29, 2023 | There are few issues that unite Oklahomans more than their belief that cockfighting should be illegal. Fully 87% say this practice should be illegal while only 8% oppose. Every major group has at least eight-in-ten wanting cockfighting illegal, including 87% of registered Republicans and 90% of registered Democrats. Additionally,

Sooner Survey: Volume 34 No. 1 ⎸March 1, 2022 | Prior to the pandemic, and prior to the parent revolution over issues such as CRT and who is fundamentally in control of a child’s education, school choice had majority support in Oklahoma and strong support among Republicans. Now support for using tax dollars to send a child to a school setting that best serves them – including private or parochial schools ‒ is even stronger reaching 65% among all voters and 78% among Republicans. The impact of this issue on elections was realized at the polls in last year’s Virginia elections and Oklahoma seems poised to take the same approach in 2022.

Sooner Survey: Volume 33 No. 8 ⎸October 27, 2021 | As Oklahoma restarts its practice of executing those duly convicted, we wanted to look and see where Oklahoma voters are in 2021. What we find is very strong support for the death penalty with almost three times as many supporting the practice (64%) as opposing it (23%). At the extremes, it is even more lopsided with 41% of Oklahomans strongly supporting the death penalty and only 13% strongly opposing. This support is very similar to what we saw the last time we looked at this issue in 2015 (68% Favor vs. 24% Oppose).