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The People's State of the Union: Giving Congress a Piece of Their Mind

Barack Obama's 2011 State of the Union address on Tuesday will cover familiar ground: the economy, the war, the need for bipartisanship. But below is a different kind of report -- distilled from opinion polls over the last 12 months about what the American public says it thinks (if, of course, the pollsters can be trusted). If it were the topic of the address this Tuesday, here are the major talking points lawmakers and political leaders would hear: We don't like you and think it's been a long time since you did a good job. When Gallup averaged its poll numbers for the 2009-2010 session ...

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