Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years (thehill.com)

Isn't that "88" a little too on-point?

It's all just gonna keep getting worse huh

That’s definitely not suspicious timing

Wow! It's only 9 years older than the guy that requested this change!

Is Gallup nonpartisan, or does it have connections/affinity to the Republican party? I vaguely recall some of the famous pollsters have political affinities that aren't very clear.

The rates are so low that they don't need to measure anymore. That's what they were told, probably.

Trump is so unpopular they have to stop polling on it because they're afraid of retribution? What in the Schutzstaffel is this nonsense?

> When asked by The Hill if Gallup had received any feedback from the White House or anyone in the current administration before making the decision, the spokesperson said, “this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities.”

Why bury the lede? Why not just say “it’s got nothing to do with Trump, we’re doing this because X isn’t a priority for Gallup anymore.”

Anticipatory compliance.

Great leader may sic the government on your subversive corporation if the poll numbers are too bad.

Cowards. I maintain my position that all political polls are either useless or actually detrimental to democracy though - how many didn't vote for Hillary because the polls said she'd win? How many more might have turned out if they hadn't seen that? Only the election matters and the rest is noise

I guess they've been warned they'd end up like the Des Moines Register if they provide any data that seems critical of the administration.

They cut down the sample size about 5-7 years ago, anyway, by like 90%. I learned this not through a press release, but by going through their metadata. This was a long time coming. Their business model just isn't very profitable. I wish, instead, they just sold it off to another company to continue the same methodology and maintain the prior data. This frequently happens. There's value in having a poll that has been running for at least 5 years. Much value in a poll that has been running for like 100 years.

It will be interesting to see if they return to doing them after Trump is out of office

Trump has been threatening pollsters repeatedly. So this is probably a way to avoid a lawsuit, where the inevitable outcome is a smaller company having to pay a settlement. But it is disturbing that this is the state of America’s legal system, which historically has been viewed as (relatively) trustworthy.

Does Gallup want to keep their government contracts?

* https://www.gallup.com/analytics/647639/federal-government-s...

* https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_1305M323FNFFK0004...

* https://govtribe.com/vendors/gallup-inc-dot-the-gallup-organ...

Their software can't handle numbers less than zero.