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Sooner Survey: Volume 36 No. 4 ⎸August 25, 2025 ⎸Recent news exposure has not been helpful for a potential gubernatorial run for Ryan Walters.  Not only has his percentage in a Republican primary fallen, but his favorable to unfavorable ratio within his own party is as poor as any we have recorded during our more than 30 years of surveying Oklahomans. 

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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,

Oklahomans Strongly Support Death Penalty

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).