This is a little overdue, but during last week's debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, I used Newt Gingrich's "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" to think critically about each politician's word choice. The list he created contained both positive and negative words to use during speeches/debates/etc. As each political candidate spoke, I tried my best to keep count of how many times they used words on this list and etched tally marks next to each word. I thought it might've been interesting to make a wordle of the words on Gingrich's list that were repeated the most frequently during the debate. Here it is:
[it would help to click on it so it appears larger]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
A Wordle for Last Week's Debate
Posted by Carrie F. at 6:32 PM
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This is a really cool post Carrie. I find it interesting that you spent the time to keep a word count while watching the debate. I wish I would have thought of that idea also because I wastched the entire debate. One of the largest words was children. I would expect each candidate to use this word because it has a positive connotation. I think that it would have been interesting to see a wordle from the words Obama said vs. the words that McCain said.
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