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Polls suggest Edmondson has better chance against Stitt than Cornett
CNHI News Oklahoma
NORMAN — Two polls
released within the last month
suggests Democratic guber-
natorial candidate Drew
Edmondson stands a better
chance if Tulsa businessman
Kevin Stitt wins next week’s
Republican runoff against
former Oklahoma City mayor
Mick Cornett.
A poll of 404 people from
across the state conducted by
SoonerPoll asked likely vot-
ers from both parties who
they would vote for if the
general election was today.
When asked to pick between
Cornett and Edmondson, 173
people, about 42.7 percent,
said they would vote for the
former mayor, compared to
140, 34.7 percent, who said
they would vote for the
Democrat.
But when asked to choose
between Stitt and
Edmondson, 163 people,
about 40.3 percent, said they
would vote for the Democrat,
while 158 people, 39.2 per-
cent, said they would vote for
Stitt. That gave Edmondson a
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lead of just over 1 percentage
point, while the margin of
error for the poll stands at
plus or minus 4.88 percent.
The SoonerPoll was con-
ducted between July 18-20.
Another poll from The Right
Strategy Group conducted
between Aug. 1-2 also has
Edmondson performing bet-
ter against Stitt than against
Cornett.
The RSG poll had
Edmondson barely ahead of
Cornett, with 39.4 percent of
737 likely voters over 39.2
percent for the Republican.
The undecided group stood at
21.3 percent.
With Stitt, Edmondson
was ahead 42.4 percent com-
pared to 40.9 percent, with
16.6 percent undecided. The
margin of error was listed at
plus or minus 4.99 percent.
The Edmondson campaign
isn’t putting too much weight
into next week’s result when
it comes to strategy,
Campaign Manager Michael
Clingman said.
“We’re certainly interest-
ed in who wins, but it doesn’t
make a difference to us,” he
said. “From where we sit, we
don’t see a real difference. We
haven’t done our own polling
on that question.”
The Cornett campaign’s
internal polling showed even
better results for the candi-
date, Communications
Director Will Gattenby said.
In terms of Edmondson fair-
ing better in a one on one with
Stitt than with Cornett,
Gattenby said they’ve seen
that, too.
“At that time, our internals
were better than that,” he
said. “We’ve seen the same
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trend along lines of the gener-
al election matchup.
“The race is about leader-
ship and who do people want
to have as the next governor
of Oklahoma. Mick Cornett
has a history of results, and
clearly that resonates with a
lot of voters.”
He said Cornett’s record
on jobs and business growth
at Oklahoma City should be
“attractive to both sides of the
aisle.”
In July, SoonerPoll sug-
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gested Cornett and Stitt were
neck and neck in the runoff to
take place a week from today,
Aug. 28. Two more recent
polls, including the one from
RSG, show Stitt leading
Cornett.
RSG has Stitt ahead 41.3
percent to Cornett’s 32.6 per-
cent, with 26.1 percent unde-
cided. Similarly, a poll from
Remington Research Group
— which it says was conduct-
ed with 1,757 likely
Republican voters and has a
plus or minus 2.3-point mar-
gin of error — has Stitt ahead
by 10 points, 47 to 37 per-
cent.
The Cornett campaign
wouldn’t comment on the
record about the Remington
Research poll, but it is under-
stood they have some issues
with it. It’s not something
worrying to the candidate and
they are still confident of
being on the general election
ballot in November, based on
their own numbers.
Donelle Harder, Stitt cam-
paign communications direc-
tor, noted the date on the
SoonerPoll data and the sub-
sequent polls that are more in
the Republican’s favor.
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