McCain and Obama as a Pile of Words

Posted by Alex in Pictures, Politics on August 15, 2008 at 12:52 pm


John Schwenkler wrote an interesting short piece for the Boston Globe by putting together profiles of the US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, drawn from the most-used words from their respective blogs:

It’s nothing major: just a use of Wordle to pull out the most prominent words from the official McCain and Obama campaign blogs, and then some brief analysis of a few of the most interesting ones. But it is sort of fun, and I do think it’s genuinely revealing of at least some important aspects of the state of the debate.

It’s interesting to note that in both McCain’s, and naturally, Obama’s, blogs the most often used word is "Obama," but the tone of McCain’s blog is decided more negative.

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8 comments to "McCain and Obama as a Pile of Words"

  1. brandy
    August 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    interesting–reminds me a bit of dave bowker’s work:

    http://www.designingthenews.com

  2. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 15th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    Cool. Interesting to see what’s on their minds/blogs.

  3. Justin
    August 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    is it just me, or did he not plug “Mccain” into the equation?

  4. ted
    August 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    So Obama’s a Pollyanna?

  5. Carl
    August 15th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    Sounds about right to me. Obama presenting solutions and McCain going out of his way to slander Obama.

    Heh, of course that’s heavily skewed and hardly representative of anything remotely telling, but still interesting.

  6. obama 08
    August 27th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    go go go go go go go go go obama obama obama obama if you are smart you will vote obama!!!!!!!!CHANGE

  7. Bath enclosures
    August 30th, 2008 at 6:09 am

    Why John McCain is a shower & Barack Obama is all bath
    http://www.wdbathrooms.co.uk/acatalog/Shower-or-Bath.html

  8. bipolar2
    September 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    . . . voting for the redemptive power of suffering?

    ** Welcome to Dominatrix Sarah’s little world of pain **

    McCain is a doddering dupe. Now he’s just along for a ride into an all-American abyss of fundamentalist political ideology, Dominionism.

    Dom Sarah comes “wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.” She is exactly the gender traitor dominionists need to jumpstart their wet dreams of a xian tyranny.

    Like some pernicious Tinkerbell, Dom Sarah would make “The Handmaid’s Tale” come painfully alive. A one sentence synopsis of the film: In a polluted dystopia ruled by xian tyranny, a rebellious woman finds herself condemned to sexual slavery because she holds a rare gift, fertility. (adapted from IMDb.com/title/tt0099731)

    Margaret Atwood’s novel depicts a society where women have been stripped of all rights. Gilead, a fragment of a failed America, is a small nation controlled by christo-fascists and their transnational corporate overlords.

    Dom Sarah ought to energize the BDSM crowd. She is a true believer, a puritanical atavism born in Atwood’s dystopia who wants to treat America to some strict, xian discipline.

    Dem-attack-PACs should buy “The Handmaid’s Tale,” novel and DVD, by the box load and hand copies to every media person. Get TV outlets to broadcast it. If necessary buy time to show “The Handmaid’s Tale” in critical markets.

    bipolar2


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