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.”
Are polls valid then? It depends on who you ask.
It depends on whom is doing the poll as much as anything. How they ask it, where they ask it, there is a l of room to make push polls however subtle for obvious. But well done polls are still good for gauging public opinion to a degree, if they aren’t done by pollsters with an axe to grind.
I really can’t say how reliable the major pollsters are in honesty.
What do you think?
I treat polls like hunches or guesses. I have a “gut feeling” about these results. The furthest thing from science or statistics you can get is a “gut feeling”, but sometimes your gut is right. Polls are big business though and they stir up a lot of discussion for all the big media out there doing their “division for clicks” dance.