Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years (www.theguardian.com)

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Gallup, the public opinion polling agency, will stop tracking presidential approval ratings after almost nine decades, a spokesperson confirmed.

As Donald Trump continues to closely scrutinize polling of his popularity, and publicly lambast media companies that report on unfavorable numbers, Gallup insisted its decision was “solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities”.

Trump’s second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, which is among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The US president started his second term with an approval rating of 47%.

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[-] 2piradians@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

"We're gonna stop doing one of our main day to day functions because we have goals and stuff"

Who do they think they're fooling?

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They'll successfully fool the people who want to be fooled.

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Trump runs FAKE NEWS Polling Company OUT of BUSINESS!!!! Relief as MILLIONS take to the streets to PRAISE TRUMP."

Probably not far from what the right wing media would report on this. And everyone who consumes this media will believe it wholesale.

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

"I'm the most popular president in history. This has never happened before. I am so popular. It's really great."

The orange turd, likely in a few days or weeks

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

He's popular alright, just in all the wrong ways. There's famous and then there's infamous.

Hitler was popular and also infamous. So was Stalin. I dunno. Maybe the fuckin pedophile aims to be like those assholes. Either way, he's a piece of fucking shit.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

These pretexts they give are completely unnecessary.

Literally everybody with a working brain that is paying attention understands the optics of this is that Gallup is bending the knee and paying the toll so that Trump doesn't attack them with the Executive Branch.

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I guess we don’t need polling if we’re not doing that “democracy” thing anymore.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

trump will forever be known by historians as the president who was so bad that gallup had to stop measuring it.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

More like so corrupt that Gallup was afraid to measure it.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Same same, but different

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

So did he threaten a lawsuit or did they decide to preemptively capitulate before he remembered what their name was?

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They didn't design the system for this low of numbers...

[-] d33pblu3g3n3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Trump corruption knows no limits.

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Can’t measure something that doesn’t exist.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This is the most important moment perhaps in decades to keep polling and they stop? Holy fuck.

I kind of wondered if ABC/Disney capitulated when axing 538?

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