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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (133265)	5/21/2012 2:42:38 PM
From: joefromspringfield	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224708

"IT'S DROPPED A GRADE SINCE 2005: ANALYSIS (NEWSER) – Didn't do so great on that last vocabulary test? That's OK, there's a place in Congress for you. The current class of congressmembers speaks at a 10.6 grade level—down almost a full grade from 2005's 11.5 grade level on the Flesch-Kincaid scale. According to a political scientist at the Sunlight Foundation, the open government group that ran the numbers, one reason for the decline is the influx of new members who were elected in 2010, many of them with Tea Party support. " NOW THAT IS INTERESTING. THAT WOULD PUT THEM 2 GRADE LEVELS HIGHER THAN OBAMA. blog.lib.umn.edu