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By: Information Design Watch » Political Word Clouds

Information Design Watch » Political Word Clouds — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:38:45 +0000

[...] recent political speeches in the U.S. presidential race. Richard Fernandez at Belmont Club compares Sarah Palin’s Republican Convention speech to John McCain’s while the Times compares Democrats to Republicans with an additional breakdown of key words by [...]

By: Financial Blog » Friday, 09/05/08 10:01 PM

Financial Blog » Friday, 09/05/08 10:01 PM — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:50:40 +0000

[...] Running Palin’s and McCain’s speeches through the word cloud… [...]

By: NahnCee

NahnCee — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:44:33 +0000

Mike, you’re wrong so often, maybe you should start doing smiley faces. Then you could act like it was all a joke.

By: Mike Sylwester

Mike Sylwester — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:03:13 +0000

I wrote: (Sep EIGHT).

I don’t do smiley faces.

By: Mike Sylwester

Mike Sylwester — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:02:13 +0000

I must admit publicly that so far (today is Sep I have been really wrong about the opinion polls.

By: Corp Cactus

Corp Cactus — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:00:14 +0000

Amit, that’s too smart and a half…

By: Bob Murphy

Bob Murphy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:12:23 +0000

There are a lot of concerns about energy independence for the US in this and other Belmont Club threads.
But here’s a thought.
I am a transport writer and I saw an interesting Media Release from the US EPA in about 2000 stating that average fuel consumption for US light vehicles had falled to a 20 year low.
That was due to the swing towards SUVs and big pick-up trucks which were not subject to the same fuel economy requirements as cars.
The EPA went on to say that if all SUVs, all light vehicles had to achieve mandated fuel economy requirements for passenger cars the US would not need ANY Middle East oil.
That’s without any other changes.

By: V.B. Bart

V.B. Bart — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:11:46 +0000

@ James @ 6 September, 4:22 AM You very cogently note Obama's strengths and weaknesses. I would add one more major weakness: Obama's close connections over the long years with the far Left and its radicals. We all know the litany by now (though, Heaven knows, not from much of the MSM): the many connections with Communist groups or individuals throughout his life, starting with his mentor/father figure, Frank Marshall Davis, and on to more radical connections, Wright, Pfleger, Ayers, Rezko, Khalidi, etc. There is only one MSM publication (that I know of anyway) that has looked deeply into all of this: Investor's Business Daily's Editorial Page. Hats off to them! They've done an excellent series of more than a dozen articles about Obama, The Audacity of Socialism, that is a must read.

By: Visualizing Speech | Neptunus Lex

Visualizing Speech | Neptunus Lex — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:07:31 +0000

[...] uses the word cloud generator to determine which words most often came up in the speeches of Sarah Palin and John McCain at the [...]

By: starling

starling — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:26:33 +0000

I made a "Wordle" tag cloud of responses on Oprah's discussion board to her decision not to have Sarah Palin on her show. To say that Oprah's fans are disappointed is to vastly understate their sentiments.