Gallup's exit

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📊 Gallup exits presidential approval tracking

After 88 years of tracking how Americans view their president, Gallup has quietly exited the presidential approval polling business. Writing for DDHQ, Geoffrey Skelley breaks down what this means — and why it’s not as surprising as you might think.

The immediate numerical impact on polling averages will be modest, since approval is one of the most-polled questions in American politics. But Gallup’s departure isn’t without consequence. The firm had been a consistent outlier on the low end of Trump’s approval numbers during his second term, so its absence could nudge aggregate averages slightly upward. More broadly, it ends a nine-decade continuous time series that has served as a foundational benchmark for understanding public attitudes toward the presidency.

Gallup’s pullback from political polling has been gradual. After a poor performance in the 2012 presidential race, it stopped surveying elections entirely ahead of 2016. It scaled back f…