the writer, Andrew Romano, used to be with Newsweek/Daily Beast. he has been a weekly US correspondent for taxpayer-funded ABC Australia for years, where he campaigned non-stop for HRC in 2015/2016. he has a serious case of TDS.
he was on ABC in recent weeks claiming some poll or other - not this one - was showing disapproval of the President on the virus when, in fact, polls were showing the opposite.
how appropriate the article includes the following two excerpts:
“The public figure who has earned the highest approval ratings for his work on the pandemic is Dr. Anthony Fauci.”
“The public also gives New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo high marks for his performance.”
anything polled by UK’s YouGov - which has now taken over Murdoch’s Newspoll in Australia - is not to be trusted. ever.
Twitter: Andrew Romano, Yahoo; formerly Newsweek/Daily Beast
https://twitter.com/AndrewRomano
Wikipedia: YouGov specialises in market research and opinion polling through online methods. The company’s methodology involves obtaining responses from an invited group of Internet users, and then weighting these responses in line with demographic information. It draws these demographically-representative samples from a panel of over 8 million people worldwide. As YouGov’s online methods use no field-force, its costs are lower than some face-to-face or telephone methods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouGov
31 Mar: YouGov: This poll is a part of the Yahoo News/YouGov Poll partnership and was cited in the Yahoo News article “59 percent of Americans say Trump’s Easter timeline is ‘too soon’ to restart the economy.”...
Americans give highest marks to Anthony Fauci and Andrew Cuomo for their COVID-19 performance...
Methodology: This Yahoo! News survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1,579 U.S. adult residents interviewed online...
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/03/30/yahoo-newsyougov-most-americans-heard-lot-about-pr
9 Apr: YouGov: Most Americans think a recession is already here among other pessimistic economic views
In: Economist/YouGov Poll
I have a sneaking suspicion that one purpose of the poll is to help get Biden replaced with Cuomo. The whole thing smells.