Gallup, one of the country’s most well-known polling firms, announced Wednesday that it will no longer track presidential approval or favorability of political
Gallup, one of the country’s most well-known polling firms, announced Wednesday that it will no longer track presidential approval or favorability of political figures. The move ends the longest-running continuous effort to track US opinion of the nation’s president, dating back to the tenure of Franklin D.
Roosevelt in the late 1930s. The company attributes the change to a shift toward research on “issues and conditions that shape people’s lives.” Gallup has some of the longest trend data in polling on public opinion about prominent issues and the nation’s mood, which it plans to continue, and says that it will no longer “publish assessments of individual political figures.” The end of presidential approval tracking at Gallup is the latest in a long line of shifts that have remade the landscape of polling over the last few decades. Some major public pollsters, including Gallup, stepped back from conducting polling on which candidate voters prefer, sometimes referred to as horserace polling. Changes in the ways people communicate made it harder, more time-consuming and more expensive to conduct polling by telephone, long the gold-standard of survey methodology and the methodology Gallup has used for its presidential approval tracking. That’s led to major shifts in how public pollsters do their work. And long-running, prominent public polling partnerships – such as CNN’s former partnership with Gallup and USA Today, the partnership between CBS News and the New York Times, and between NBC News and the Wall Street Journal – have ended or changed. The standard job approval question used by Gallup since the presidency of Harry S. Truman – “do you approve or disapprove of the way is handling his job as president” – has been adopted and carried forward by hundreds of researchers since. CNN’s most recent tracking of polls on President Donald Trump’s approval rating includes 134 high-quality polls on that metric conducted by someone other than Gallup since the start of his second term in office. Trump’s current average approval rating in the CNN Poll of Polls stands at 39% approve to 59% disapprove, similar to Gallup’s final measure in December 2025, which found 36% of Americans approving of Trump with 59% disapproving.Mobile Police are currently responding to a shooting in the 900 block of Wesley Avenue.A woman has died from multiple gunshots and a man has been detained in tAccording to ALEA, a single-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 11:43 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, has claimed the life of a Summerdale man. Jorge Loza-ResenMobile County Sheriff's Office is scheduled to provide an update on a missing family from Theodore on Tuesday at 11:30 am.PREVIOUSLY:Blood, missing mattress, pWho knows best when it comes to the health and safety of your local land and waterways?The federal government or your local lawmakers?This week, the majority of
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