Obama vs. McCain debate: What they said
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain debated at the University of Mississippi on Friday night. CNN has the transcript of the debate. From the transcript, I separated what Obama said vs. what McCain said and, using Wordle, created word clouds. The clouds represent the 150 most frequently used words; the larger the word, the more often it was used.
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Did John McCain call Republicans a disease tonight? See for yourself!
” MCCAIN: Well, the first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It’s completely out of control. It’s gone — we have now presided over the largest increase in the size of government since the Great Society.
We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us. And the — the worst symptom on this disease is what my friend, Tom Coburn, calls earmarking as a gateway drug, because it’s a gateway. It’s a gateway to out-of-control spending and corruption.”
[...] to the word clouds we put together after each candidate’s acceptance speech, take a look at the 150 words each candidate used the most during the debate. Obama and McCain will debate again on Oct. 7 at Belmont University in Nashville, [...]