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   Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval, the analytics   
   firm confirmed on Feb. 11.   
      
   Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the Washington, DC-based management   
   company began tracking the president's job performance 88 years ago.   
      
   Gallup told USA TODAY it will no longer publish "favorability ratings   
   of political figures," a decision it said "reflects an evolution in   
   how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership."   
      
   A statistician and founder of the American Institute of Public   
   Opinion, Gallup first sent pollsters across the United States during   
   the Depression era to ask people whether they approved or disapproved   
   of how the nation's commander-in-chief was handling his job.   
      
   Since its inception, journalists have used the polls to disseminate   
   that information to the public. In addition to tracking a president's   
   popularity, the polls also reveal partisanship and other rapid public   
   opinion moves while a president is in office.   
      
   The change is part of "a broader, ongoing effort to align all of   
   Gallup’s public work with its mission," the company wrote in an email.   
   "For nearly a century, Gallup’s U.S. polling has provided rigorous,   
   independent insight into the American people - their perspectives,   
   values and lives. Leadership ratings have been part of Gallup’s   
   history. At the same time, the context around these measures has   
   changed."   
      
   Gallup said the ratings are now "widely produced, aggregated and   
   interpreted, and no longer represent an area where Gallup can make its   
   most distinctive contribution."   
      
   "Our commitment is to long-term, methodologically sound research on   
   issues and conditions that shape people’s lives," the company wrote,   
   adding that its work will continue through the Gallup Poll Social   
   Series, the Gallup Quarterly Business Review, the World Poll and more.   
      
   It was not immediately known what other factors led up to the   
   company's decision.   
      
   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/11/gallup-p   
   esidential-approval-rating/88629201007/   
      
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