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.”
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.
They are afraid of Trumps reaction to the truth.
That or fight an eleventy-hundred billion dollar lawsuit from the demented rapist.
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.)
Cowards. All of them.
Irony ending on 88…years.
Didn’t even notice that. Damn.
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Ruh roh raggy!
Yer freakin me out!
/s
“Good news, Mr. Big Strong President Sir! Your approval ratings are 100% of what they were yesterday.”
Bend the knee to kiss the orange onion ring.
Spineless twats.
Cowards
Damn. Was hoping this meant they wouldn’t measure approval ratings for presidents 88 years old or more, but nah, just more cowardly bullshit.
It reflects gallup bowing to pressure from the administration seeking to end all bad press about it, one way or another. The media sees that no one will stop them, so caves to the pressure. They all think the Republic is all but dead, elections will be fixed for the party going forward, and resistance is futile.
It’s only the people that don’t think that, the courts, the media, bureaucracy, and the rest gave up and surrendered the Republic last year. The media helped saddle us with opposition to them that couldn’t win so are a co conspirator anyway, even if they don’t entirely realize how culpable they are. But they can blame others, and they do. It’s all voters’ fault that they didn’t do the thing it was known they wouldn’t do when the party and media forced a strategy that couldn’t work.
It sounds dumb when you verbalize it, but the reasoning works on the sheep, and of course shouting down any that disagree works, especially when you are the media and those disagreeing are just citizens with no platform.
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.
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
Gallup is spineless and should no longer be trusted, got it!
