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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
This sounds like bullshit... like they don't want to get harassed by Orange Caligula as they report on his collapse.
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.
President Trump has seen his rating by the agency slip in recent months, peaking at 47 percent last February and dipping to less than 37 percent in its last poll taken in December.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/]
Mysterian
(6,500 posts)Let 'em go out of business.
dalton99a
(94,217 posts)themaguffin
(5,226 posts)mahina
(20,645 posts)Permanut
(8,395 posts)It would be a shame if something happened to it.
themaguffin
(5,226 posts)2naSalit
(102,871 posts)This is why the polls are so unbelievable anymore.
37% is the lowest anyone dares show the orange hellbeast's ratings since early last year. Since they can't say no to the bastard, they'll just stop doing the thing he hates.
Whyisthisstillclose
(667 posts)or control the numbers until nothing can be trusted. Same technique as climate change, weather, air pollution, tariff income, disease updates, inflation, unemployment, GDP and on and on
uppityperson
(116,022 posts)617Blue
(2,484 posts)Easterncedar
(6,288 posts)If that's not a plain statement of corruption in a polling organization right there, the Mango goon is a stable genius.
NewHendoLib
(61,861 posts)Cowards
Johonny
(26,203 posts)Initech
(108,797 posts)God forbid we hurt the poor widdle piggy's feelings.
struggle4progress
(126,191 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,001 posts)Their reason given in the linked article is gobbledy-gook.
LiberalArkie
(19,820 posts)the election results.
Unrepentant Fenian
(1,134 posts)Liberal In Texas
(16,274 posts)Too many corporate suits are kowtowing to this petty tyrant.
Blasphemer
(3,623 posts)sarisataka
(22,696 posts)Since I distinctly remember many people saying Gallup was unreliable and fixed with their polling results.
If they're unreliable anyway, what does it matter if they stop polling popularity?
Wounded Bear
(64,345 posts).