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Jackie Calmes: Biden has the best legislation record of any president since LBJ. Why can't voters see it?

President Joe Biden greets guests following a speech at the Laborers’ International Union of North America training center on Feb. 08, 2023, in De Forest, Wisconsin.

Political polls come and go, the results often unsurprising in a polarized, tribal America. Yet early this week, one poll's finding brought political nerds from the White House to Washington's watering holes up short.

More than 6 in 10 Americans, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll published on the eve of President Biden's State of the Union address, said that the president — widely credited by historians and nonpartisan analysts for having achieved more legislatively in his first two years than any president since Lyndon B. Johnson — had accomplished "little or nothing."

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