{"id":12775,"date":"2008-09-29T19:18:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T02:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/29\/words-mean-things-18.html"},"modified":"2008-09-29T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T02:18:38","slug":"words_mean_things_18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/words_mean_things_18.html","title":{"rendered":"Words mean things"},"content":{"rendered":"

A word map<\/a> (larger = more frequent) of the First Debate.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the actual word frequency<\/a> is interesting. The number and uniqueness of words between the two candidates is nearly on par. McCain used “I” half again as much as Obama, “we” almost three times as often — but Obama was the only one to mention Bush.<\/p>\n

Just looking above, Obama’s word choices of “going,” “make,” “now,” and “think” strike me as more powerful than “know,” “spending,” “got,” and “want” from McCain.<\/p>\n

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(via Margie)<\/p>\n

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