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Wordle, McCain v.s. Obama

| Posted on: September 9th, 2008 | Categories: Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Politics, Representation | 3 Comments »
Other related posts and pages: |Analyzing political debate | Word cloud | WordMapping the debate | Word cloud, redux | Oh, Shi(f)t! Only in India… |

As I was playing with Wordle (see previous postings here and here) I realized that it could be used for political analysis. So here are John McCain and Barack Obama’s acceptance speeches as a word-map.

Can you without, my telling you so, figure out which is which?

A clue is the word that ends up at number 1. It is “Country” in one case, and “Promise” in the other. A careful study reveals many other such insights… try it out yourself.


| Posted on: September 9th, 2008
Other related posts and pages: |Analyzing political debate | Word cloud | WordMapping the debate | Word cloud, redux | Oh, Shi(f)t! Only in India… |


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3 Responses to “Wordle, McCain v.s. Obama”

  1. Ken Dirkin Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    I would suppose from the words McCain in one and Obama in the other, that the candidates are addressing the other directly, so it appears that Obama spends much more time talking about McCain then McCain spends talking about Obama. Very interesting.

  2. Irfan Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 1:09 am

    wordle sounds good! have u worked on kindle?

  3. Geld Schnell Says:
    May 29th, 2011 at 11:58 pm

    Obama has probably been the best thing that could happen to the US. In Germany, we love this guy :)

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