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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.
But it isn't not reflected in the article.
Which only means that media is compromised, too.
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.
Irony ending on 88...years.
Didn’t even notice that. Damn.
And this comment is 14 minutes old!
Yer freakin me out!
/s
You have 14 upvotes
Ruh roh raggy!
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.
Gallup is spineless and should no longer be trusted, got it!
Tomorrow:
"Gallup renamed TRUMP-gallup Poll"
-- TrumpWaPo
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.
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.
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
They’ll bring it back “by popular demand” if a dem ever gets office again
One more step towards dictatorship
That was over a year ago.
Would love to be a fly on the wall for the actual discussions that precipitated this announcement.
Translation:
So baby cheeto told them to stop because he doesn't want to hear that everyone hates him. Gottit
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.
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.
Problem solved. Approval is 1,000,000% many people are saying even higher
The highest of any administration. It brings tears to my eyes. (as a big strong man)
Bend the knee to kiss the orange onion ring.
I’ve done my own poll and it said he’s the lowest approval rate ever.
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"
Cowards
Spineless twats.
That or fight an eleventy-hundred billion dollar lawsuit from the demented rapist.
They are afraid of Trumps reaction to the truth.
I think most paying attention don't hold much faith in polls and, for the most part, ignore them. Polls seem to exist to try to sway public opinion, not inform the public with verifiable facts. Sadly, it seems to me that most don't pay attention, they just jump right in.
I don't think that. Also, the polls being off for the past ten years, rather than showing how much more inaccurate they are now than before, and they aren't totally accurate by any measure, but it could be showing the republicans are cheating, have been cheating, even if their cheating hasn't always been enough to win.
They are cheating in more and better ways now, and gearing to outright denialism. It's not a conspiracy, or a theory to say they are trying to cheat, we all saw 2020, we know what happened in 2000, that these voting fraud campaigns started right after they stole the 2000 election. We know states putting outdated and inadequate equipment in blue districts, understaffing them, making some have to wait all day to vote. None of this is new, and none in good faith, they are just taking it to the next level.
So rather than the polls being so much more wrong that before, perhaps they are cheating more than before and that's why they are off more than they ever have been before these last 10 years.
Are polls valid then? It depends on who you ask.
It depends on whom is doing the poll as much as anything. How they ask it, where they ask it, there is a l of room to make push polls however subtle for obvious. But well done polls are still good for gauging public opinion to a degree, if they aren't done by pollsters with an axe to grind.
I really can't say how reliable the major pollsters are in honesty.
What do you think?
I treat polls like hunches or guesses. I have a "gut feeling" about these results. The furthest thing from science or statistics you can get is a "gut feeling", but sometimes your gut is right. Polls are big business though and they stir up a lot of discussion for all the big media out there doing their "division for clicks" dance.
Damn. Was hoping this meant they wouldn't measure approval ratings for presidents 88 years old or more, but nah, just more cowardly bullshit.
Hello fellow dweller in gaseous environs.
Ofcourse they will, they will just not publish the data
Fucking scum
"Good news, Mr. Big Strong President Sir! Your approval ratings are 100% ~of~ ~what~ ~they~ ~were~ ~yesterday.~"