Ethics strongly shape how public views Congress
Members of Congress who may have thought months ago that ethics concerns would be a non-factor in this year's election had better think again.
A new survey by the Pew Research Center asked 749 Americans to offer one word to describe how they feel about Congress. Lots of different words were volunteered, but it's interesting that three of the top dozen answers relate either directly or indirectly to members' ethics: corrupt, self-serving and crooked.
More significantly, only one word was used more often than "corrupt" to describe Congress.
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