graphic designr » Joe Biden http://graphicdesignr.net/blog Conversations about journalism, news and design Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:32:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Biden vs. Palin: What they said at the debate http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/2008/10/02/biden-vs-palin-what-they-said-at-the-debate/ http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/2008/10/02/biden-vs-palin-what-they-said-at-the-debate/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:30:12 +0000 Erica Smith http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/?p=639 Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin debated at Washington University on Thursday night. CNN has the transcript of the debate. From the transcript, I separated what Biden said vs. what Palin 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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Biden said “John” 72 times, “McCain” 52 times and “going” 39 times.

Sarah Palin


Palin said “also” 48 times, “going” 42 times and “John” 34 times.

Update: A few people have asked about “maverick.” Biden said “maverick” nine times; Palin said “maverick” four times and “mavericks” twice.

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