So did Gallup scrap its annual most admired poll because...
Jan 3, 2022 18:21:31 GMT -5
Post by shalom on Jan 3, 2022 18:21:31 GMT -5
So did Gallup scrap its annual 'most admired' poll because Trump kept winning it?
January 3, 2022
By Monica Showalter
Sore losers don't like being sore losers, and for those who can't take it, the sorest will pick up their marbles and go home.
That brings us to Gallup, whose left-wing pollsters had a problem on their hands as of 2020: President Trump was winning their annual "most admired" poll, which they had conducted since 1946.
According to NewsBusters, they didn't do that poll this year:
NewsBusters pointed out a year ago that liberal news media lost interest in the annual poll after Donald Trump started edging out Barack Obama for first place, whereas the networks previously enjoyed using the survey to embarrassing Trump as sitting President failing to come in first place.
This year, a Google search conspicuously shows no sign that Gallup conducted such a poll for the past year, possibly because they couldn't stand that thought having to report what likely would have been Trump coming in first again this year — after the January 6 riot.
Rather than shrug it off as typical nostalgia for an earlier president, which was what Republicans were easily able to do when Barack Obama made the top of their list during Trump's presidency, they decided to not do one at all.
NewsBusters' take is speculative, of course. It could be that Gallup had no willing buyers in the mainstream media for the results of its polls. The media watchdog did note that the corporate media reported the matter minimally in 2020 when Trump came out on top.
But the fact that the poll apparently wasn't conducted at all rather signals that someone didn't want the public reading this poll — and Gallup never did it.
Was it fear that Trump's rising popularity might get out and serve to boost his poll numbers?
Continued at link
January 3, 2022
By Monica Showalter
Sore losers don't like being sore losers, and for those who can't take it, the sorest will pick up their marbles and go home.
That brings us to Gallup, whose left-wing pollsters had a problem on their hands as of 2020: President Trump was winning their annual "most admired" poll, which they had conducted since 1946.
According to NewsBusters, they didn't do that poll this year:
NewsBusters pointed out a year ago that liberal news media lost interest in the annual poll after Donald Trump started edging out Barack Obama for first place, whereas the networks previously enjoyed using the survey to embarrassing Trump as sitting President failing to come in first place.
This year, a Google search conspicuously shows no sign that Gallup conducted such a poll for the past year, possibly because they couldn't stand that thought having to report what likely would have been Trump coming in first again this year — after the January 6 riot.
Rather than shrug it off as typical nostalgia for an earlier president, which was what Republicans were easily able to do when Barack Obama made the top of their list during Trump's presidency, they decided to not do one at all.
NewsBusters' take is speculative, of course. It could be that Gallup had no willing buyers in the mainstream media for the results of its polls. The media watchdog did note that the corporate media reported the matter minimally in 2020 when Trump came out on top.
But the fact that the poll apparently wasn't conducted at all rather signals that someone didn't want the public reading this poll — and Gallup never did it.
Was it fear that Trump's rising popularity might get out and serve to boost his poll numbers?
Continued at link