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.”
Damn. Was hoping this meant they wouldn’t measure approval ratings for presidents 88 years old or more, but nah, just more cowardly bullshit.
One more step towards dictatorship
Would love to be a fly on the wall for the actual discussions that precipitated this announcement.
Problem solved. Approval is 1,000,000% many people are saying even higher
Gallup is spineless and should no longer be trusted, got it!
They’ll bring it back “by popular demand” if a dem ever gets office again
Maybe it’s a technical problem. Maybe they can’t show negative numbers.
Incorrect. Trump’s approval would be best represented with complex numbers, which gallup does not support. -50+100i perhaps?
I am not ok with that magnitude
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.
Which only means that media is compromised, too.
But it isn’t not reflected in the article.
Cowards. All of them.
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.
OK, so Gallup is pro-fascist and their poll numbers can’t ever be trusted.
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.
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.
Irony ending on 88…years.
Didn’t even notice that. Damn.
And this comment is 14 minutes old!
You have 14 upvotes
Ruh roh raggy!
Yer freakin me out!
/s
Wtf is “thought leadership” and wtf is it doing?
“Yes yes we must discontinue gathering real thoughts from the public because the Thought we now must all Think is that Thrump is Thy Thupreme Leada and Everythink is Great”
Translation: They did the poll and it’s so devastatingly bad that it’s impossible to spin.
He must be polling several points below the previous worst result.
