In Congress, talking like a 12th-grade student makes you a brainiac
the article speaks mainly about a few Washington State reps. seeing as it's a Seattle Times article.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2018263947_danny23.html
Two years ago the laser-penned columnist Ann Coulter sent right-wing shock waves out to the left coast by labeling our senior U.S. senator, Patty Murray, "the stupidest person in America."
"This remarkably unimpressive woman has tried to turn being a flat-footed dork into an advantage by selling herself as a tribune of regular folks," the column said.
That was right before Murray whomped Dino Rossi in the election. So the whole episode was very embarrassing. For him.
But now a new analysis of the linguistic complexity of the speeches of members of Congress has found that Murray isn't such regular folk after all. She may even know what a 25-cent word like "tribune" means.
