Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/methodology/709373/gallup-begins-research-simulated-responses.aspx
CM Harrington
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