EDIT: The Hill blocks links. Trying to find another source. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/
Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday.
The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.”
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.