While reporting on next year's governors' races and writing the gubernatorial chapters for the Almanac of American Politics 2018, I often struggled to find polling data. Whenever I looked for an approval rating for a particular governor, it seemed like I would come up with only one option: the periodic 50-state surveys by Morning Consult, a survey research and media company.
It led me to wonder: Have newspapers and other pollsters cut back on approval-rating polls? I don't have any hard data to answer that question, but it appears to be the case, judging by the observations of nearly a dozen political experts I spoke with.
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