At this point in the election, just a few short days before the very first official Presidential debate, most U.S. citizens feel like they’ve heard it all; the same hot topics and their respective “
stock speeches” are being recycled and reprocessed to better fit into numerous appearances, rallies, and interviews. Those speech writers can’t fool us--no matter how they try and rearrange the lexicon, certain key words reverberate in our ears.
Prompted by the
Brooklyn Art Project, I headed to wordle.com and made an image summary of which words are used the most frequently on Obama and McCain’s blogs (the size of a word is relative to its recurrence). The results had some surprising effect--for myself, at least. I for one, didn’t know Barack cared so much about grandmothers…
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