Presidential Debate Comparison
October 7 and October 15, 2008
Prepared by Upstream Analysis
Sen. Barack Obama
October 7, 2008
Word count: 7,109
Sen. Barack Obama
October 15, 2008
Word count: 7,702
Consistency (% of words appearing in both debates’ tag clouds): 54%
Number of times Sen. Obama mentioned Sen. McCain by name: 43
Sen. John McCain
October 7, 2008
Word count: 6,568
Sen. John McCain
October 15, 2008
Word count: 6,636
Consistency (% of words appearing in both debates’ tag clouds): 46%
Number of times Sen. McCain mentioned Sen. Obama by name: 55
Visualizations generated by TagCrowd. Analysis excludes common English words such as “and, of, the”. For more information on Upstream Analysis, please visit www.upstreamanalysis.com.