Polling has never been a neutral force

Gallup, Inc., perhaps the world’s best-known polling company, managed to achieve a sort of Band-Aid level of engagement with its product last week. announced it will no longer follow the approval of the US presidency or the favor of any political figure. This comes across as a dark development; is yet another example of institutions rewriting reality for the benefit of the increasingly authoritarian second administration of Donald Trump.

The concept of orderly voting on the apparent level of approval politicians, their parties, and their policies have is now so central to how we consume politics that it’s easy to forget that the arts are less than 100 years old.