Obama Vs McCain
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I went to the site
Real Clear Politics where they collect transcripts of political speeches. I took the last speech they had transcribed by Barack Obama and the last speech they had transcribed from John McCain and pasted both speeches into separate Wordles.
The above image is what came out. The top wordle comes from Barack Obama's recent Townhall speech in Elkhart, Indiana. The bottom wordle comes from John McCain's speech in Jackson, Ohio.
You can view this large here.
Comments
Nice, I like the comparison!
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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Fascinating that Barack has
"McCain" as such a frequently-used
word, and I don't even see "Obama"
anywhere in McCain's list.
Was Baracks's a direct response to something
McCain did/said?
Reminds me of the West Wing (?) episode
where the political advisor advises Bartlet
to not use his opponent's name in a speech.
But does it hurt Barack to be consistently
mentioning McCain?
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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{interesting}
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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interesting. i thought it was the other way
around at first - mccain on top,
obama/bottom.
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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@kellygrape: Obama is really small but it is
the 4th word from the right bottom corner.
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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what did you use to do this??
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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Sadly, "freedom" and
"liberty" are not apparent in
either.
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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@TravelingRoths: of course not. That is not
what they are about.
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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@damon.hair
wordle.net/
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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That's really cool. I think this makes me
like McCain even more, personally.
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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One reason that you don't see Obama very
large in McCain's area is that he can barely
bring himself to utter Sen. Obama's name.
Listen to his speeches sometime and you will
see what I mean.
This little experiment, while interesting,
means absolutely nothing. Unless you assume
that both candidates give the exact same
speech in which they lay out their entire
plan for America then going by one speech
does nothing to further understanding of the
stances of the candidates. Go to the page
linked and read the titles of their last
speeches. McCain's was specifically about
the economy and Obamas was about energy. Of
course they are going to have different key
words.
Posted 3 weeks ago.
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thank you CC. that's awesome.
Posted 2 weeks ago.
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