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14. It's possible that their number for that is a little stale,
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 04:53 PM
Feb 2020

But nothing close to that stale.

They're pretty good at Gallup when it comes to statistics and methodology.

Where they have problems is in things like question phrasing and order. For instance, if the previous question was about a trump scandal or about the roaring stock market or the coronavirus? Because that previous question might have an impact on the "approval" question.


Not to single out Gallup on this point. It's a general problem that a lot of polling companies get wrong.

Sometimes on purpose...

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