> I'm assuming the Gallup poll they link to stated 41 at the time of publication.
The Gallup poll they link to isn't even about his approval.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/203834/americans-world-standing-w...
That's the problem with assuming...
The Gallup poll they link to isn't even about his approval.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/203834/americans-world-standing-w...
That's the problem with assuming...
>Conversely, 57 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the country’s standing in the world. That’s the highest that number has been in a decade, according to Gallup.[1] And Trump’s approval rating, of 41 percent, is lower at this point than any other president Gallup has tracked since Dwight Eisenhower.
the link in the politifact article is very clearly talking about americans having an unfavorable view of the country, and not approval ratings.
Why are you lying?
If you look on gallup for the day of the politifact article[2], you will see that it shows % approve is 41%.
as for why they would choose the gallup approval ratings over rasmussen, there are very many answers to that question. rasmussen is an online poll, which has been viewed by pollsters since forever as much less accurate than live phone surveys (since online polls can very easily be gamed brigading, they dont verify the identity of the respondent, etc.)
The average from all the approval ratings is 45%[3]
[1]http://www.gallup.com/poll/203834/americans-world-standing-w... [2]http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-app... [3]https://imgur.com/a/MzDa4
The rest of my post though?
I tend to trust more often when a source publishes something that runs counter to (my perception of) its bias. Such as this article from the WaPo:
> Yet he also acknowledged that the country is reaching the limits of what it can handle, and may have no choice but to tighten its policies in the face of an influx this year that is expected to bring more than 150,000 asylum seekers to a country with a population of less than 10 million.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/behind-swedens-w...
Yes, Sweden takes in (per capita) among the most refugees. [1] This has been the case when I've looked at data for at least 4-5 years.
Yet violent crimes has gone down. [2]
> Honestly, I have no idea what's going on in Sweden. I've heard so many different stories and it's hard to know who to trust when neither the media nor the government are trustworthy.
What specifically is it that you don't trust or wish you had more information about?
I see nothing wrong in the article you link. It's interviewing a representative of the rise of "Sweden Democrats", which is a nationalistic party on the rise that has gotten ~20% of the electorate, in a multi party country, which is very significant.
It's however not relevant to any crime statistics or unrest, but merely _perceived_ unrest, much like the alt-right movement, Brexit, and similar.
A lot of Swedish statistics are mandatorily published in English, so it's not terribly difficult to get it if you try.
[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/daily-c...
[2] https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statist...
https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statist...
Those stats only go up to 2014, before the refugee crisis.
You're right in that there is a spike in 2015, but the 2014 stats are more than twice as high as 2016.
And regardless of which, it's completely relevant if we want to measure immigration as a factor on crime.
Half as many applications in 2016 as in 2013?
Those are only "asylum" applications...could they be processing people under other categories now?
What media are you referring to?
This is literally the Swedish equivalent of the USCIS. If you rather listen to your preferred outlet reporting otherwise, then bias is certainly at large.
If either of those are true, that would be a story I'd like to read.
Has anyone reported that?
I'd like to know why those numbers fell. Did Sweden stop immigration? Did refugees stop coming? Are refugees being admitted in some other way, not counting as asylum?
Edit:
I found an article in Foreign Policy from over a year ago. According to them, Sweden closed the door.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/the-death-of-the-most-ge...
Interesting that the media continues to chide Trump and laud Sweden, if they've both done the same thing.
Strawman.
Either he claims Sweden has immigration problems, which data suggests against, or he suggests Sweden has an immigration problem but they stopped immigration. So which is it?
Either one makes Trump look like an idiot.