Word clouds from both sides now: A debate lexicon
By Stephanie Whiteside / current.com / @stephgwhiteside
President Obama and Mitt Romney were determined to make their points during the first presidential debate — but what did they actually say?
We took their answers to two of the main topics of discussion — jobs and health care — and their final statements and broke them down into word clouds for each candidate.
Here's how it works: The bigger the word, the more times it appears in the cloud.
Obama may have tried to humanize the issues with stories. That meant that Obama's speech was much more diverse than his opponent's, whereas Romney hammered home keywords in his responses.
Romney also avoided referring to the president by his title, while Obama addressed his opponent as governor.
Naturally, both candidates were quick to emphasize the hot topics of taxes, Medicare and, of course, America.
Here's how the candidates responded to the topic of jobs (click to enlarge):
Here's what they had to say about health care:
The final statements:
Tune in this morning to "Full Court Press" at 6E/3P and "Talking Liberally" at 9E/6P for a full breakdown of the debate.
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mikeschmitt
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does anyone know the precise altitude of the next debate? perhaps algore can find the answer on the internet, which he invented dontchaknow
- 8 months ago
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mikeschmitt
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chujuckie
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Lets not jump to conclusions about the debate last night between the President, and Mitt.I think President Obama handle it well by laying down the foundation for the next debate.He delivered his message well, and the only people who didn't get it are the people who Mitt Romney was referring to as a part of the 47%. who Mitt firmly thinks, and believes are moochers.We need to understand from the point of view of each candidate, and Mitt Romney may have seem more aggressive, and together, but that is all it is.No facts, no foundation, and nothing.Anybody who buys Mitt's message is delusional.Every fight, the winner is always one who allows it's opponent to come out swinging.This is not first, and the last debate.Actually there are two more before ellection..........
- 8 months ago
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chujuckie
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fisaac
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Obama should have drawn him more into his own trap
I think that it was artful how Obama drew Mitt into defining himself as a moderate on social security and Medi-cal, Medi-care etc. He should have drawn him more on his moderate stance on abortion and pro-choice. This would have been the clincher then he could really have used the following two debates to entirely allow Mitt to decouple himself from his own voting base - a lost opportunity by Obama.
Overall a good tactic let the flip-flopper define himself as a liberal so that you can detach him from his own base in the following debates and strengthen your wn position (if you understand strategy etc.)
Obama - now you have to clinch the deal.
- 8 months ago
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fisaac
