July 10th, 2012 at 12:00PM
freebroccoli: owsposters: Why is Congress Dumbing Down? View in Zoom.It || Download in High-Def Source: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/05/21/grade-level-congress/ - Speech levels determined via the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test. Author’s note: This is a remix of the work cited in the poster. I felt the info was so good but the original infographic so difficult on the eyes that someone should re-do it. So I did. It’s interesting to note that the Republicans used to be the smart party, but they went into sharp decline during the Bush administration.

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Why is Congress Dumbing Down?

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Source: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/05/21/grade-level-congress/ - Speech levels determined via the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test.

Author’s note: This is a remix of the work cited in the poster. I felt the info was so good but the original infographic so difficult on the eyes that someone should re-do it. So I did.

It’s interesting to note that the Republicans used to be the smart party, but they went into sharp decline during the Bush administration.

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