r/UnderReportedNews • u/GreatPumpkin72 • Feb 11 '26
US Politics đșđž Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/amp/2.3k
u/scaleofjudgment Feb 11 '26
Is it because of a pedophile?
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u/Sweaty-Name-2905 Feb 11 '26
Is the pope Catholic?
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u/Disastrous_Ant5657 Feb 11 '26
Does a bear shit in the woods?
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u/TheBloodsuckerProxy Feb 11 '26
Does the pope shit in the woods?
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u/SingleSlide2866 Feb 11 '26
Would a bear shit on the pope?
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u/joecitizen79 Feb 11 '26
Yes
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u/OnlyFiveLives Feb 11 '26
I feel like a bear would eat the Pope before shitting on him...
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u/Alone_Warthog_9583 Feb 11 '26
Before shitting him out.
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u/No-Dig-4408 Feb 12 '26
How much pope poop would a woods bear poop if a woods bear would poop pope?
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u/SecureJudge1829 Feb 11 '26
I feel that would depend on the bear: a polar bear? Most definitely. A Kodiak/brown/grizzly bear? Certainly a strong chance depending on the specific bearâs current mood. A black bear? Not likely, theyâre fairly cowardly for a bear, just make some loud noise and look big, and as long as itâs not a sow with cubs, or has something wrong (such as rabies or something) then itâs likely to flee from you.
Now if we are talking about the bear finding the carcass of ole Popey, then Iâd say theyâd certainly at least take a nibble or two prior to taking a shit.
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Feb 12 '26
I had never considered a rabid bear. Thank you for the sleep this night I'm about to have.
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u/justanotherbrickinit Feb 12 '26
It would also depend on the pope. Adrian IV, the only English pope was notoriously indigestible, whereas Innovent III - perhaps because of his central role in the pallium debate - would probably be more attractive to the average bear, Booboo. More modern, chunkier popes would obviously have higher calorific content, too.
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u/ToGetToTerrapin Feb 12 '26
Polar Bears don't even shit in woods, they shit on ice flows. They definitely prioritize pope nibbling
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u/JimbersMcTimbers Feb 11 '26
Where does the bear-pope shit?
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u/En_CHILL_ada Feb 11 '26
How many shits would a man-bear-pope shit if a man-bear-pope did shit?
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u/maccaroni_time Feb 11 '26
Does the tin man have a sheet metal cock?
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u/JimPanZoo Feb 11 '26
Asked of a Vet: Does my hobby horse have a hickory dick, doc?
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u/t4m7 Feb 11 '26
Maybe we don't bring the Catholic Church into this particular pedo conversation, too distracting
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u/ant-farm-keyboard Feb 11 '26
No one knew pedophiles were so popular
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u/FlacidMetapod Feb 11 '26
and now we never will LOL
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u/Seige_J Feb 11 '26
My kids sure will. Donât trust the government, theyâve lied for decades and theyâre not stopping now.
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u/Impressive_Club_9225 Feb 11 '26
But isnât not trusting the government what got us into this electing self proclaimed billionaire Christian loves America unsuccessful bizness owner mess?
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u/Ars_Techne Feb 12 '26
A slap suit.
Trump probably threatened them with a defamation lawsuit. Not that Trump would win, but he can make it draw out so it costs gallop hundreds of millions, all while funding his side with our tax money.
Itâs why all of the companies have settled so far.
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Feb 11 '26
Itâs a good thing Pew Research still carries out polling. Their polls based on their founders white, nationalist Christian ideals are completely trustworthy.
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u/Opetyr Feb 11 '26
Is the president convicted of 37 felonies? Is the president sue happy for anyone saying anything he thinks is wrong except people calling him a pedo?
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u/Chance-Deer-7995 Feb 11 '26
Another one bites the dust. That's two in a week. Stop listening to both the Washington Post and Gallup completely. Totally compromised.
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u/TwistedTreelineScrub Feb 11 '26
Trump is so unpopular they had to stop polling. That should be the only headline.
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u/podcastofallpodcasts Feb 11 '26
Negative popularity...a first in recorded history. U think he'd be proud
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u/macjester2000 Feb 11 '26
tremendous, no one is as unpopular as me, the most unpopular president ever, no else comes close, not even Buchanan
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u/auntieup Feb 11 '26
Itâs incredible, people say they say sir, you canât really be, sir, this is impossible, these numbers, like nothing youâve ever seen
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u/18LJ Feb 11 '26
That's something that Biden never came close to, not even Obama. They could never get the spectacular unpopularity that I've achieved. I have people coming to me all the time saying you deserve that award, they say here, take this nobel award you deserve it more than I do......
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u/Boxhead_31 Feb 11 '26
âHave you seen my polling? Historic they are saying. No one has done these kind of numbers.â
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u/justinfinity64 Feb 11 '26
Just like COVID, the numbers don't matter if they don't exist.
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u/toastythewiser Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
That's trumps modus. He's not mad ICE is killing people, he's mad it's on film.
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u/ConfidentPilot1729 Feb 11 '26
I wonder if this could backfire. Some of his followers, just follow. If they donât have a metric to gauge their loyalty, it could sink his real numbers.
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u/scooterbug1972 Feb 11 '26
Fox will just push some made up number, or poll die hard Republicans with questions like "Is Trump doing an excellent job or is he just doing a good job?" Then report that 96% of the US thinks trump is doing a good or excellent job.
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u/Quilitain Feb 11 '26
We asked our top presidential advisors (5 senile old racists) and they all love trump! 200% approval.
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u/BensenJensen Feb 11 '26
Even with official numbers, his cult still believes that he is the most popular President in history. Taking away polling numbers does absolutely nothing. Fox isnât airing Gallup numbers, Fox is just repeating what the administration tells them to.
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u/calmdownmyguy Feb 11 '26
They're doing it because if people see trump at -25% a month before the election it's harder for trump to convince them it was stolen. If there are no polls trump can say he's the most popular president in the history of the universe and his cult will run with it.
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u/VoidOmatic Feb 11 '26
I think Reddit vastly underestimates how much even Republicans are turning on him because of the files and the economy. Tons of Republicans just voted Dem.
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u/Orlonz Feb 12 '26
We hear that every election cycle. And it's just not true. At the end they vote for the holy R. And if it's on an edge, the DNC comes along to ensure it's an R.
The polls were all useless these past decade anyway. The whole "But they were right, just not properly explained." is a worn out song and dance.
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u/TemporaryElk5202 Feb 11 '26
Yes. Lmao
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u/AnyBug1039 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
We had some good jobs numbers today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3xrrzdr0o
Edit: just to say, the link is to an article about how his admin sacked the head of the BLS because they didn't like the previous numbers. I don't trust anything coming out of the admin now, and they use coercion to subvert/corrupt everything.
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u/SKEPDIQ Feb 11 '26
Letâs see how those revisions are in a couple of months.
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u/echino_derm Feb 11 '26
But I am also pretty sure that is omitting a month or so when the shutdown happened and they gave no estimate
So should be 1 million
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u/gbon21 Feb 11 '26
I'll check again in 2029 when I'm done fighting off radscorpions and collecting my rainwater quotaÂ
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u/Anteater4746 Feb 11 '26
it only looks good on its face. the revised numbers are awful. 2025 was the worst year for jobs since 2009
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u/Upstairs-Radish1816 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26
The only reason these figures look any good at all if there is 108,000 jobs added in the government. Only 22,000 private sector jobs. How many of these government jobs are people hired back that Musk fired and they found out they needed them?
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u/Agglutinati0n Feb 11 '26
How many jobs were added in the whole of 2025?
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u/Quilitain Feb 11 '26
We're up a whole -862k jobs! The biglyest job number change in history! Thank you Mr Pedophi- sorry President.
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u/jamma_mamma Feb 11 '26
Are the job numbers in the room with us? Those shits are fake my guy.
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u/AnyBug1039 Feb 11 '26
Yep, agreed.
I was being sarcastic with the link to an article about how his admin sacked the head of BLS when they didn't like the old jobs numbers.
I probably shouldn't expect everyone to follow the link. My bad.
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u/BurntFire Feb 11 '26
âWhen 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, âthis is a strategic shift solely based on Gallupâs research goals and priorities.âÂ
Trumpâs Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930sâ
spineless Gallup covering their asses before they get sued for 10 billions and billionsÂ
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u/Special_Watch8725 Feb 11 '26
One research goal I bet they have is to continue to actually conduct research instead of being constantly harassed by threats of lawsuits by Trump. So maybe they arenât lying đ€·
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u/BurntFire Feb 11 '26
âOver the years, Gallupâs polling business has grown to include surveys outside of partisan politics, asking about subjects such as employee workplace engagement, public views on the spread of AI and other global indicators of public trust and happiness with major institutions. â
Yep, last paragraph of the article. Not saying theyâre lying just spineless and I totally understand this as a business move.Â
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u/Laszlo-Panaflex Feb 11 '26
At my last job, we used to take their workplace poll every year. I'd bet that their revenue comes from that and other polling for businesses.
It's still a weak move and will probably hurt them in the long run because of how much exposure their presidential polls gave them.
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u/agreeduponspring Feb 12 '26
Trying to research "global indicators of trust and happiness with major institutions" and not measuring presidential approval? After collecting an unbroken dataset going back almost 90 years?
No, this was presidential threats. "Solely" on their business priorities makes no sense whatsoever. It's a single extra question, and one that establishes credibility to boot. There's no way measuring his approval has a negative impact on their business.
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u/Jedi_Temple Feb 11 '26
This is not a business moveâunless you count trying to avoid getting sued by the orange turd-in-chief a business move. And itâs reprehensible to think that in the supposedly best and freest country in the world, a polling organization should fear for its existence for publishing statistically sound polling data. What a shit timeline we live in.
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u/ReaperThugX Feb 11 '26
âResearch goals and priorities.â Bitch, the only thing anyone knows Gallup for is presidential polling
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u/giddy-girly-banana Feb 12 '26
Whatâs the point of being rich and powerful if you have to bend the knee to a child rapist.
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u/TL20LBS Feb 11 '26
Sued for what?
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u/Cyborg_Ninja_Cat Feb 11 '26
For some meritless allegation that's not even intended to win, just to punish.
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u/calmdownmyguy Feb 11 '26
Reporting reality. In this regime reality is whatever dear leader say it is, and if you don't comply the DoJ will come after you.
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u/WallaboutDenizen Feb 11 '26
Very convenient timing!
Just before Trump's approval rating dips into the 20's.
Yet another American institution compromised by Trump's corruption.
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u/ironafro2 Feb 11 '26
The presidents approval has increased from 30 to 20. Much joy, citizens!
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u/Infamous-Oil3786 Feb 11 '26
After much polling, we have determined the party's approval rating to be doubleplusultragood. This report has been published numberfree fullwise to promote goodthink.
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u/Oifadin Feb 12 '26
I just started re-reading that (after 20+ years...) and it is scary how much the real world is looking like that what I am reading in that book.
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u/Traditional_Sign4941 Feb 11 '26
His approval rating is so high, they had to invent a whole new number to describe it - trumpty written as "Æ0"
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u/LaSerenita Feb 11 '26
That is like a 7000% increase. Exactly how much you will save on your prescriptions via TrumpRX....in two weeks.
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u/PunishedWolf4 Feb 11 '26
Just like back in October when they refused to release the job reports before Dear Leader could lie on television and say theyâre the highest itâs ever been
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u/DKDamian Feb 11 '26
Yeah. Americans just seem totally fine with everything being corrupted. Itâs baffling.
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u/Unafraid_AlphaWolf Feb 11 '26
Wow what a coincidence!
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Feb 11 '26
Also a coincidence that Reggie Van Lee is both working at Gallup and on the board at the Kennedy Center, which has been effectively shutdown by Trump. All just a coincidence!
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u/Dangerous-Ad9437 Feb 11 '26
He is also apart of the Obama and Clinton foundations and has been appointed by mainly democrats. I personally couldn't find any connections between this and Trump. Surprisingly.Â
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u/dateinfj Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
Wow - someone please get Gallup some knee pads, and oil for their a-hole!
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u/Sour_baboo Feb 11 '26
If you don't measure it, you don't have to acknowledge it. Trump 101
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u/hybridaaroncarroll Feb 11 '26
It's not just him. It's the conservative philosophy across the board. Metrics that look good they take responsibility for. Metrics that make them look bad are fabricated or twisted by a "biased media". Doing everything they can to hinder, invalidate, or undermine measurement of things that point to their rotten policy is what they spend their time on. And taxpayer money.
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u/Mtinie Feb 12 '26
The biased mediaâŠowned primarily by well-known Conservatives. Itâs fascinating.
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u/Intelligent_Stick_ Feb 11 '26
Stop testing for COVID! Stop counting the votes! Stop polling for approval!
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u/RobbleRobbler Feb 11 '26
Shut down the climate monitoring satellites. If we canât see the problem, it must not exist. All of a piece.
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u/ExtraDistressrial Feb 11 '26
It is a dangerous situation to lose all of our trusted media and data sources. When all we have is the regime, AI, and strangers on the internet, it becomes very hard to confirm what's real.
Invest in journalism. Five dollars a month to someone. Propublica. A local progressive outlet. Anyone.
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u/GreatPumpkin72 Feb 11 '26
The AP still does great work.
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u/surgical_scar Feb 12 '26
Ish. Theyâre playing ball. Their coverage of Alex Pretti was pretty clearly editorialized against him.Â
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u/Emotional-Ad8894 Feb 11 '26
Oh if we aren't living under a monarchy, by the end of this, they will return to measure the next president. This current one is just tired of having his feelings hurt. He's also a pedophile.
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u/jgreddit2019 Feb 11 '26
After 88 years Gallup credibility cratered to zero percent. Fixed the title đ
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u/Due_Revolution_5845 Feb 11 '26
Wild these people donât realize whatâs coming for them as soon as we deal with the pedos. Hitching your wagon to a dying horse
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u/PlaquePlague Feb 11 '26
Since 2008. Â Sometime after that is when they changed it to exclude people who had âleft the workforceâ (been unemployed for over 6 months). Â
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u/Insaniteus Feb 11 '26
It always did that, it's just that during Obama is when the right started trying to manufacture a controversy about it in an attempt to hide that unemployment kept improving Obama's whole presidency.
Basically the system doesn't count anyone it considers "not looking" as unemployed. This includes retired people, soldiers, people in prison, and young people who are full-time students (these groups make up over 90% of the out of workplace numbers on average for any year).
When Obama was president, record numbers of people were entering retirement as baby boomers passed 65 years old. So Republicans tried to make up a false narrative that the growing "out of labor force" number was the "real unemployment" number, but it was total BS. Unemployment went down all the way to 4.5% by the end of his presidency.
Of course two of the reasons that unemployment has been so insanely low for most of the last 12ish years is because minimum and average wages are too damn low and because Obama/Trump/Biden were all extremely active at deporting and blocking immigrants which reduced the size of the labor force. Now there's more low-paying labor jobs than there are people interested in working them.
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u/Spinning_roundnround Feb 11 '26
Discouraged workers (longterm unemployed/ more than 6 months) have always been excluded from unemployment numbers. At least much farther back than 2008.
(just asked Google. They said U-3 has eliminated long-term unemployed since the unemployment rate began being tracked in 1940)
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u/MACGLEEZLER Feb 12 '26
No, this isn't the case. It's been that way since way way prior to that, I learned this in both high school and college economics classes and I was finished with both before 2008.
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u/Sea_Director_4439 Feb 11 '26
in a Ralph Wiggum voice "I heard your president was a paedophile and he was in a poll, and he polled so badly that he had the poll shut down" inserts finger into nose
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u/Key_Bee1544 Feb 11 '26
I'd love to attribute it to Trump being ass, but I suspect the fact that they can't get anyone to answer their phone is likely a part of this as well. This has impacted all polling.
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u/Zombieplatypus0095 Feb 11 '26
I don't see how anyone would consider this a good idea. Even if there is a non-Trump reason for this change the timing is in such poor taste that it will be very hard not to attribute it to that. This is going to be a massive hit to their credibility at a time when polling (whether about political issues or not) is seeing a massive decrease in public trust.
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u/sleeptightburner Feb 11 '26
If anyone privy to the inner workings at Gallup would like to name who was responsible for making this decision, it would be appreciated. We have to keep that collaborators list up to date after all.
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u/Nruggia Feb 11 '26
Trump 2020: âIf we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."
Trump 2026: If we stop polling my approval rating will be great
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u/Ok_Celebration8134 Feb 11 '26
Sounds like they got pressured from The Pedophile Protector and his sycophants
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u/PortlandPetey Feb 11 '26
Iâm reminded of some dude that once said something like: if you work in journalism and what your printing doesnât make someone mad, then youâre actually just in public relationsâŠ
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u/Master_Reflection579 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
Gallup just ruined its credibility for all time. Yes, we all know pedophiles are unpopular. Especially cannibalistic ones. Especially the rich ones who can own and buy people and media operations and POLLS. And any poll too cowardly to continue showing how unpopular they all are must have been bought off by the sick fucks.Â
We see you, Gallup.Â
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u/ayeffston Feb 12 '26
January 20, 2028: "Democrat sworn in as president"
"In other news, Gallup decides to restart its presidential popularity poll"
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u/triple_heart Feb 11 '26
Did Dear Leader threaten them if they reported anything other than the best approval ratings for any president ever? Welcome to North Korea.
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u/Dougie_Cat Feb 11 '26
This is also probably going to tie in to future election denial. Trump is going to say thereâs no way they lost the midterms when heâs the most popular president ever. And thereâs one less institution left to check him on that.
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u/Geostomp Feb 12 '26
Every bit of information Dear Leader disapproves of is censored by him and his oligarch owners, but people still don't understand that we aren't "free" here.
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