EDIT: The Hill blocks links. Trying to find another source. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/
Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday.
The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.”
Translated: We are cowards and the current president is a ridiculously fragile crybaby who can bury us all if we produce data that indicates he is polling worse than the previous president, who he claims was the worst of all time. We have no spine, no balls, no integrity, and welcome our tissue-skinned commander-in-chief into our eagerly-awaiting spread cheeks.
Seems to be a common theme nowadays.
It’s also possible their owners actually like what Trump is doing and want to support him.
This could be the case, but is not reflected anywhere in this article.
OK, so Gallup is pro-fascist and their poll numbers can’t ever be trusted. Bunch of orange-ass-kissing cowards.
Well, they did choose to remove the poll numbers when they could have chosen to doctor them instead.
I suppose thats what counts as integrity these days.
Irony ending on 88…years.
Didn’t even notice that. Damn.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
There is huge historiographic, academic, intellectual, world history value in keeping this poll going. Its the longest running, consistently executed poll in the US. The methods have been kept largely identical throughout. It doesn’t matter if its flawed in some ways. The consistency alone has value enough to keep it, and I’m sure the costs of running it are marginal.
This some bullshit.
Gallup is spineless and should no longer be trusted, got it!
We all know why they did this. It has nothing to do with the bullshit their trying to claim.
They did this because of trump.
Tomorrow:
“Gallup renamed TRUMP-gallup Poll”
– TrumpWaPoMaybe it’s a technical problem. Maybe they can’t show negative numbers.
They’ll bring it back “by popular demand” if a dem ever gets office again
One more step towards dictatorship
That was over a year ago.
Journalists should treat this the same way they did when musk took over Twitter and set the press email to auto-reply with a poop emoji.
Many articles included references to that, saying things like, ‘we reached out to Twitter, but their response was shit’. Some fed it questions tailored to the auto-reply, so that they could report things like 'when asked their opinion about the company’s chances of survival under musk, twitter’s own PR dept was not optimistic, chosing to simply reply with a poop emoji.
Journalists (at least those not working for maga controlled / allied media) should take a similar approach, and characterize the new, null data as 0%, and publish statements like
‘In recent poling, Gallup found no supporters for the president, suggesting his approval rating of 0%’
Or
'Our graph of Gallups poling data on presidential popularity over time shows a sharp decline to 0% approval in recent months. (After purposefully building a bot / website scraper that shows null/ undefined results as 0, making that a true statement.)
Would love to be a fly on the wall for the actual discussions that precipitated this announcement.
Translation:
So baby cheeto told them to stop because he doesn’t want to hear that everyone hates him. Gottit
Problem solved. Approval is 1,000,000% many people are saying even higher
The highest of any administration. It brings tears to my eyes. (as a big strong man)
Bend the knee to kiss the orange onion ring.
