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Obama’s State of the Union Hits the Eighth Grade Reading Level

Obama's State of the Union Hits the Eighth Grade Reading Level Barack Obama's State of the Union speech scored at an eight-grade readability level, according to the University of Minnesota's Smart Politics blog. His three SOTUs all rank among the six lowest scoring ones ever, and are on average "more than two grades lower than the 10.7 grade average for the other 67 addresses written by his 12 predecessors." [via Politico]

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