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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.

The Partisan Virus

Sooner Survey: Volume 33 No. 2 | April 20th, 2021 | The most recent Sooner Survey focuses on how voters relate to the Covid pandemic and reveals a great deal about our citizenry. This issue is almost as divisive as all but the most ideological of issues and even starts to approach that of abortion and guns and shows that a virus and the response to it has become an overtly partisan issue.

Are Oklahomans Ready to Raise Tobacco Taxes?

Sooner Survey: Volume 36 No. 5 ⎸September 16, 2025 ⎸More than 20 years ago, Oklahoma voters went to the polls and by a 7-point margin approved SQ 713 that increased the tax on cigarettes and tobacco products the equivalent of four cents per cigarette, or 80 cents per pack. At that time, more than 26% of Oklahomans were smoking, Today it is now below 16%. This 10 percent change would indicate that passing a cigarette tax may well be even easier today, and the polling certainly reflects that.