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In a late September 2011 New York Times/CBS Poll, only 6 percent of respondents -- an all-time record -- believed Congress deserved re-election. President Obama's approval rating hit a low of 38 percent in the Gallup Poll of October. The fact that we seemed unable to get our economy growing again and that American troops were at war on the other side of the globe had something to do with those numbers, but so did the nation's perception of the culture of Washington, driven by that city's obsessions: power and money.

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