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Are You Smarter Than A Politician?

By Michael White | November 23rd 2008 05:28 AM | Print | E-mail

Michael White

OK, this isn't strictly science, but take this U.S. civics quiz and then see if you do better than your average US government official.

Is it really surprising that government officials did worse than the average in this survey?

I got 31 out of 33 - how did you all do?

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