As far as I know they've always been considered to be very objective with high standards.

Doesn't mean their methodologies always correctly predict outcomes or anything, just that I've never seen a serious case made that they're intentionally skewing results to influence outcomes.

I believe this comment reflects that white supremacists and nazi's use 88 as code for "h[eil] h[itler]" because H is the 8th letter in the english alphabet.

Though the current admin is clearly (very) white supremacist, I think this one is a coincidence.

if trump threatens them for making him look bad, and they cancel the polls and then say it was because of pressure, then they lose both the poll and make trump mad

Because there's a good chance it does have something to do with Trump? Gallup has Federal contracts, which means that a vindictive administration could potentially hold them hostage for reporting bad approval numbers. Eliminating their famous (yet inconvenient) poll removes that threat. This is more or less why the Washington Post is being destroyed, as well.

The company's own explanation is a pile of Gish gallop.

Because this is obviously the Trump administration putting political pressure on Gallup because Trump's poll numbers are among the lowest ever recorded?

>Trump’s Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930s.

There is a Soviet Russia joke burried here somewhere.

On blue sky there is a woman who is somewhat famous for analysis of russian train loading numbers.

Anything like that which can be used as an indicator for how bad your economy is which can't be obfuscated by your adminiation?