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> 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 spokes
by LEDThereBeLight 7mo ago
> 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.”
Why bury the lede? Why not just say “it’s got nothing to do with Trump, we’re doing this because X isn’t a priority for Gallup anymore.”
- matthewdgreen 7mo agoBecause there's a good chance it does have something to do with Trump? Gallup has Federal contracts, which means that a vindictive administration could potentially hold them hostage for reporting bad approval numbers. Eliminating their famous (yet inconvenient) poll removes that threat. This is more or less why the Washington Post is being destroyed, as well. The company's own explanation is a pile of Gish gallop.
- analognoise 7mo agoBecause this is obviously the Trump administration putting political pressure on Gallup because Trump's poll numbers are among the lowest ever recorded? >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.
- gentleman11 7mo agoif trump threatens them for making him look bad, and they cancel the polls and then say it was because of pressure, then they lose both the poll and make trump mad
- lysp 7mo agoThat is a PR non-answer
- beej71 7mo agoOne of Gallup's priorities is probably to not piss Trump off.