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Debate word clouds.

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Obama's cloud:

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Observations? I'll start with a few:

1. I wish I could exclude all the boring words like "going."

2. McCain is much more likely than Obama to say "America" or "Americans."

3. McCain says "friends" a lot more, but I don't think it's because he loves us more.

4. As I noticed live-blogging last night, Obama has the quirk of labeling things "important."

5. The most interesting words -- like "Jell-O" and "corpse" -- were only said once and stay off of their clouds. I'd like a program that makes a graphic of all the words that only appear once. They're especially... important.

Full post as published by Althouse on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).