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.

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.

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.)

OK, so Gallup is pro-fascist and their poll numbers can’t ever be trusted. Bunch of orange-ass-kissing cowards.

Gallup is spineless and should no longer be trusted, got it!

Irony ending on 88…years.

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.

Bend the knee to kiss the orange onion ring.

One more step towards dictatorship

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.

Spineless twats.

Tomorrow:

“Gallup renamed TRUMP-gallup Poll”
– TrumpWaPo

They’ll bring it back “by popular demand” if a dem ever gets office again

Maybe it’s a technical problem. Maybe they can’t show negative numbers.

Would love to be a fly on the wall for the actual discussions that precipitated this announcement.