Ditching Presidential Approval Polls Gaffe by Gallup

Another Opinion: Why would Gallup ditch presidential approval polls?

From an editorial in the Boston Herald:

Ditching presidential approval polls gaffe by Gallup

After some 80 years, Gallup’s presidential approval ratings are riding off into the sunset, and the public opinion polling agency is making a huge mistake.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years…

What president had the lowest approval rating in history?

Gallup, which has been publishing presidential approval polls since 1938, will no longer offer the service. Here's a quick history on their analyses.

US presidents ranked by their final Gallup approval ratings

President Donald Trump faced the second-highest disapproval rating of the past 70 years when he left the White House in 2021.SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty ImagesGallup is ending its presidential approval poll after nearly 90 years of measuring public opinion.Only 36% of Americans approve of Trump's performance in his second term, per Gallup's latest polls.Bill Clinton had the highest approval ratings when he left the Oval Office.For nearly 90 years,…

An 88-year-old record of what we think comes to an end

In 1937, an anthropologist, a poet and a documentary filmmaker launched a project which soon caught the attention of the British government. It was called Mass Observation, or MO. Months later, a former journalism professor who’d become involved in polling when his mother-in-law ran for Iowa secretary of state, George Gallup, introduced the first presidential approval rating. These two events marked the beginnings of an unprecedented effort to b…