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- duckley, on 09/05/2008, -44/+138NOTES:
(1) In the charts, the frequency of use of "Opponent's Name" by Republicans is misleading...
Republicans usually did not use Obama's NAME in their speeches, but clearly indicated their target. Actual references to Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden were much more frequent than indicated.
(2) The word "Reform" as used by Republicans usually indicates endless committee hearings, where personal and regional interests eventually result in the status quo, i.e. NO CHANGE, NO REFORM. - EpicSelekta, on 09/06/2008, -5/+55I would love to see the Rudy Giuliani version of this chart. It would be a big circle with "Sept. 11" in the middle. At least 12000 times.
- duckley, on 09/05/2008, -37/+86
(3) The word "Business" as used by Republicans means BIG BUSINESS and Big Oil, most in the form of Tax Breaks when they ship our jobs overseas. - Aliwalla, on 09/06/2008, -6/+47Also, when Republicans refer to "Hockey Mom's" they are in fact referring to genetically enhanced bears.
- Egg333, on 09/06/2008, -1/+36hockey moms?
- fizban, on 09/06/2008, -8/+43"The Republicans continue to evoke the memory of 9/11 as a basis for their actions."
Look, I referenced 9/11 in a sentence!
That word bubble chart thingy doesn't provide any insight into WHY the words were used or the CONTEXT in which they were used. Completely useless (except for techies who like to say "COOL! A bubble chart!") - Gloibin, on 09/06/2008, -0/+28I'll admit this is quite interesting and fun to look at, but it does not, by any means "show CLEARLY the difference between Democrats and Republicans." :lol:
- dkapuchino, on 09/06/2008, -6/+31Let the reinterpretation begin.
- Nerfdude, on 09/06/2008, -1/+24notes:
buried as inaccurate. the chart shows Giuliani using "9/11" once.
i'm calling shenanigans. - dkapuchino, on 09/06/2008, -2/+21Clearly Biden has yet to realize his potential as a hockey mom as well.
- Aliwalla, on 09/06/2008, -1/+19Ctrl + F
- dbs1221, on 09/05/2008, -11/+29Fun with spinning,
Counting down from most frequent to least frequent part way,
Republicans:
God taxes businesses and change, energy (is what) Obama reforms, (the) war (created) jobs (for) characters (helping) Iraq's Economy (not ours), (socialized) healthcare (payed for all of the ) Vice President's (heart operations), Terrorism Bush (used to instill fear and distract the public from) Hurricanes, Hockey mom (blames) 9/11 (on) Iran....
(oh did the party of national security even explore how terrorists got here in the first place to commit the attacks)
Immagration
The Democrats:
Changes (in policy define) McCain's Energy (plan).With Bush's job (you get) healthcare (which unlike the) economy (is really good, its also payed with our) taxes, (as is the) war (in) Iraq.(since 2004 for) Four more years (instead of trying to fight) terrorists (the gop focused on) iran, Cheney reformed (the role of the) vice president (subpoenas need not apply), (by exploiting) 9/11 (the administration showed their true) character, immigrants (now less of an issue than) hurricane (Gustav) - TinternAbbot, on 09/06/2008, -9/+27Um, most of the time when they talk about business, Republicans are talking about small businesses. They often make this explicit.
- fizban, on 09/06/2008, -0/+17Maybe you should try visiting their websites, where they do spell out their policies in more detail. If all you do is listen to rally speeches, you're not going to get anything but non-specific, inspiring words, because that's what rally speeches are for. This is applicable to both Obama and McCain.
For Obama, check out: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
For McCain: see http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/
If you want to be like the rest of America and not take any personal responsibility to find out the issues yourself, then don't expect to be informed. - webkami, on 09/06/2008, -7/+24Message I am getting is:
Rep: Businesses Change, God Taxes
Dem: Change Economy, McCain Taxes - Super6, on 09/06/2008, -0/+17I thought Palin made it clear they they were pit bulls with lipstick
- opusaz, on 09/06/2008, -1/+15Word clouds from the acceptance speeches...
Obama: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/166487/obama_accept ...
Biden: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/166493/biden_accept ...
McCain: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/166486/mccain_accep ...
Palin: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/166484/palin_accept ...
FWIW - Phendrana, on 09/06/2008, -1/+14I got an alligator.
Wait, are we talking about Animal Crackers? - induren, on 09/06/2008, -0/+14This is an intriguing yet useless graphic.
- Mejari, on 09/06/2008, -5/+18Where's the chart that says how many videos of planes flying into buildings for each convention? Oh, here,.I'll make it:
DNC: 0
RNC: >0
A picture is worth a thousand words, and videos are thousands of pictures, so really the Republican's "9/11" bubble count should be in the millions. - Malacandra95, on 09/06/2008, -5/+18Well, when you frame it that way...
Or you could say: Two senators vs. a senator and a right-wing extremist, who do you think will really bring change?
Or you could say: An outspoken opponent of the Iraq War and a Foreign Policy expert vs. someone who voted with Bush 90% of the time and someone who thinks Iraq is God's Plan, who do you think will really bring change?
Or you could say: The editor of Harvard Law Review vs. someone who graduated 894th out of a class of 899 at Annapolis, who has the intelligence to bring change?
There are a lot of ways you could look at this. - nalen33, on 09/06/2008, -2/+15Per 25000 words. Maybe he spoke 400000000 words and we just didn't know it?
- kaelyiesta, on 09/06/2008, -1/+13Whoosh
- jbenson2, on 09/06/2008, -3/+14Number of words is interesting, but the important figure is the number of views.
McCain pulled in 500,000 more viewers than the Obama theater with fireworks, stadium, and styrofoam Greek columns. - kaelyiesta, on 09/06/2008, -0/+11Couldn't agree more. This is absolutely useless for making informed decisions about politics.
- derekcannon, on 09/06/2008, -14/+25They ship our jobs overseas because of high taxes and labor unions. Don't you see? ._.
Tax breaks can only bring them back. - CJ117, on 09/06/2008, -6/+17Who the hell counted the 25,000 words of every speech they ever made?
- heathwater, on 09/06/2008, -6/+17I like the unbiased feel of this chart. It reminds me of the proverb "A picture is worth a thousand words". I suspect democrats will concentrate on the republican words and visa-versa.
An interesting thing I noticed, is the words that the VP candidates used more often than the Presidential Candidates tend to be attack words. Change and God for Biden -- Energy, Taxes and Reform for Palin. Just my opinion. Which, yes, I know everyone's got one. - dkapuchino, on 09/06/2008, -10/+20Would you rather buy a 3000$ cell phone, but 100% American, or a 400$ phone that was engineered here, but manufactured overseas? How would you feel about the price of the phone becoming 600$, because of government taxes?
- ZenMojo, on 09/06/2008, -4/+14Correction: Two constitutional law professors vs. a veteran and a sportscaster.
- zeblith, on 09/06/2008, -1/+11Thanks to stenographers/transcripts of the speeches, and those cruddly little computer programming projects in introductory classes like "Determine the top 25 most popular words in this text file." and all the lexical filters you can add on to that... yeeeah. Nobody counted, just like a box sits in a warehouse.
- goon5000, on 09/06/2008, -1/+10well as you can plainly see by the bubble diagram you're candidate is a moron, vote for mine.
- fishbeef33, on 09/06/2008, -0/+9Vin Diagram? Is that Vin Diesel's half-brother or something?
- Phendrana, on 09/06/2008, -0/+10No :(
But it would be cool if there was. - david76, on 09/06/2008, -6/+15I guess you didn't listen to any of the Republican speakers.
- nalen33, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8Change is relative. McCain voted with Republicans 90% of the time. Obama voted with Democrats the same amount, if not more than that. So you change from one set of failed policies to another set. We need a hybrid of both policies, some socially liberal policies and fiscally conservative policies, and until we figure that out and tell the extremes of both parties to go ***** off, we'll be stuck in this partisan nonsense and the giant douche vs. the turd sandwich.
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -23/+30I guess this is a trend, so I will follow it:
(4) Note that the Republicans couldn't find any usage for the word four more years without sounding quite foolish since the country is worse off now than it was almost 8 years ago. - 0xABADC0DA, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8Not really a surprise is it? Democrats tend to keep an open mind, they'll watch the Republican convention just to hear what the Right is saying. The Right has to pretend the other side doesn't exist in order to hold their crazy views about black people / taxes / god/abortion.
So you really think the racists out there, the ones that won't vote for any black man under any circumstances, are going to watch one speaking? - EpicSelekta, on 09/06/2008, -2/+9it is an average. A lot of it has to do with Republicans not bothering to name their opponent when they make reference to him.
- staffell, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7sorry to say that this is nonsense, because it fails to make note of whether each word was use negatively or positively.
- austenfan, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7Concordancer
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/text_concord/ - jennycherie, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8Palin did not actually use his name, she referred to "our opponent" and she referred to him by responding to his remarks, but without naming him.
- Jeepy, on 09/06/2008, -4/+11Have to mark it as inaccurate because the whole page didn't load as a picture of giant bubble that showed Giuliani: 9/11.
- dopste, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8Yes.
- dopste, on 09/06/2008, -0/+6Yeah, true but look at it it's cool, 'cos it's a bubble chart
- Aremihco, on 09/06/2008, -2/+8.... wanna check your statement? No? It's occurrences per 25,000 words spoken.
- honutt, on 09/06/2008, -1/+7Anyone else surprised that Obama mentions 9/11 more than Guiliani?
- raisputin3, on 09/06/2008, -4/+10None of them, because they are basically the same
- Nerfdude, on 09/06/2008, -2/+8so did he say "september eleventh" all the other times? because he probably said it nine hundred eleven times.
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