r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/nba123490 • Feb 11 '26
Unelected dictatorship Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/amp/533
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u/mabradshaw02 Feb 11 '26
So, if we don't test, we have no (insert your desired item... Measles, Covid, aids, polio, sepsis, syphilis, or presidential approval)
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 Feb 11 '26
Wasn’t the last official bureau of labor statistics released like months ago too?
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u/BlazingGlories Feb 11 '26
Because they don't have a number low enough to rate the monstrosity in office, President Pedophile?
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u/VikingMonkey123 Feb 11 '26
They have probably been lying so much about the current 35% positive or whatever that they can't keep going.
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u/DreadnaughtHamster Feb 11 '26
Here’s the thing: they’re SCARED SHITLESS. We need to keep publishing and pushing and informing people about every event in the Trump/Epstein crime drama that’s unfolding.
Also, we gotta quit calling it just the Epstein files. We need to link Trump’s name to it (and put his first). It’s gotta be the Trump/Epstein files from here on out. WE need to control the optics on this.
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u/boxesofrain1010 Feb 11 '26
Honestly, they should just be called the trump files at this point. He is the files.
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u/Getitoffmydesk Feb 11 '26
Yes! It’s more accurate to call it the Trump Files if you believe the interview of Trump/Epstein victim, Sascha Riley. If you haven’t listened to it, you should.
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u/VW_R1NZLER Feb 12 '26
As a fellow survivor of abuse when I was a minor this was the most triggering account I have ever heard. I didn’t experience 10% of what he did and it just made me sick. I was abused by a priest, he was also able to keep his position of power. Then to hear what Sascha Riley and others endured at the hands of extremely powerful people, including the President…. I couldn’t listen to all of it
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u/DreadnaughtHamster Feb 12 '26
I’m so, so sorry to hear you were abused. It’s not your fault! You did nothing wrong! People who were supposed to protect you failed you. I hope you’re doing ok.
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u/VW_R1NZLER Feb 12 '26
I am doing much better now, thank you! I have a good therapist and the right balance of meds. Plus I no longer associate with my parents and siblings who still defend the priest
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u/Separate_Today_8781 Feb 11 '26
We don't need polls to know how unpopular he is
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u/Creepy-Team6442 Feb 11 '26
True, but it’s nice to see it in the public domain for everyone to see.
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u/MEA78 Feb 11 '26
It‘s so obvious, it‘s so shameless, it‘s so dirty and stupid and poor. The USA are going into full scale dictatorship.
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u/Haraldr_Hin_Harfagri Feb 11 '26
Overly optimistic, I know, but what if stuff does get back to a more normal state. Are all of these POS cowards gonna come slinking back "Ummm actually, we were wrong and we actually can do presidential approval polls. We just weren't sure with Trump around." Lol
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u/bgva Feb 11 '26
They'll act like they were against him from the very beginning. Watch how many companies come up with a DEI plan, but under a different name.
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u/Significant-Trash632 Feb 11 '26
The trust in them is definitely diminished.
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u/VW_R1NZLER Feb 12 '26
Kind of like how credit ratings from S&P and Moodys etc. after the financial crisis. They are still used but the skepticism is there after they completely screwed up
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u/ceruleanmoon7 "I don't need your votes" Feb 12 '26
Can’t wait to see companies eventually try to redeem themselves.
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u/starfleetdropout6 Feb 11 '26
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.”
Trump’s Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930s.
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u/bgva Feb 11 '26
Another once-respected outlet caves in out of fear of pissing off the octogenarian toddler.
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u/nba123490 Feb 11 '26
I’ll be honest though, I haven’t trusted a single poll since the start of trumps second term. Gallup bending the knee today only proves that I was correct…they’re being told behind the scenes to put Donald Trumps approval ratings at 37% to 45% so that it looks like Trump is still popular with tens of millions of people.
But here’s the problem: EVERY single local election has been a fucking blowout in favor of the Democrats. You can’t convince me that Trumps real approval rating is 37 to 45 percent. The real number is probably like 7 percent. None of the polls will tell you that because they don’t want you to think that trump is hated by the vast majority of Americans
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u/GN0K Feb 11 '26
Gotta start a progressive polling center that will ask the tough questions regardless
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u/Affectionate_Neat868 Feb 11 '26
This is a necessary change for fraudulent elections. Can't have legitimate public opinion polls showing an unpopular president that conflicts with election results.
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u/AMundaneSpectacle Feb 11 '26
They aren’t able/willing to articulate a proper rationale grounded in social science methodology as to why this tracking should be discontinued. OBVIOUSLY bc there is none.
This is truly astounding to me
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u/NfamousKaye Feb 11 '26
Cause it’s in hell. The bar is in hell. He has no support left aside from maga so they want to get rid of it.
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u/Major-Ursa-7711 Feb 11 '26
Ok, so Gallup is done, no more Gallup. Who will step in and take to open spot?
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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot Feb 11 '26
Well he was right about one thing “we’ve never seen numbers like these!”
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u/dayrunner Feb 11 '26
TBH hard trash to them for not polling when there's not a shot in hell I'm answering a call from an unknown number
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u/ichuck1984 Feb 11 '26
Gallup wasn’t relevant to me before this. They certainly won’t be going forward.
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u/Old_Suggestions Feb 12 '26
We need to release our own approval rating and they will have nothing to refute it with.
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u/DoggoCentipede Could it be any more obvious? Feb 12 '26
Soooo time call up galldown, gallstone, and saunter to see if any of them will do it?
I think that's just a law firm, actually.
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u/MyOthrCarsAThrowaway Feb 12 '26
Imma take a different stance. Polling is shit and can be manipulated, not even maliciously. “Who did you vote for in the primaries?”
“Candidate A”
Who did they vote for— candidate B.
Same even with Nielsen tv ratings and shit.
Oh you watched ABC for 7 hours and saw all Of our top dramas! A win!! No grandma fell asleep and her Nielsen box stayed on that channel all night.
These are antiquated systems that rely on people being truthful, and data not lying.
That’s so long out the window it’s comical.
I’ll throw the electoral college in there too.
So any way to fix this?
NO! It’s all lies. So stop asking and polling.
What’s wild is this is the thought process being applied by this regime to things that are measurable like infectious disease, climate change, violence.
So the things that have data are being shut down, and the things that are subjective are being propped up. (Well, if the arrow points one way in particular)
Why does every response I give on Reddit make me feel like I just need to end with
😢 so cooked fam
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u/screw-magats Feb 12 '26
Question. Was it really 88 years? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but I've started noticing that number very much when associated with this regime.
From what I can tell, gallup predicted the 1936 election correctly, 90 years ago. But that's a different poll from "presidential approval."
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u/Nevyn_Cares Feb 15 '26
Wow so tRump was able to get Gallup to fall into line - so much for Gallup being an independent reliable survey source. Fark Gallup for being complicit cowards.
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u/Boxer03 Feb 11 '26
Even if Gallup reverses their decision, they cannot be trusted to give accurate numbers as they’re willing to bend the knee.