Last night, US president-elect Obama gave a victory speech in Chicago in front of a 100,000+ joyous crowd in Grant Park; McCain conceded in Phoenix on the back lawn of a luxury hotel with an at times bitter audience of 7,000. I followed the same methodology for their speeches as with the
first,
second and
third presidential debates and the
vice presidential debate; you can find some more detail about my methodology there. So let's start with the
bubble graph displaying length of words, sentences as well as number of words:
Unsurprisingly, McCain kept it short in every way I measured. Using
Wordle, I made all-inclusive
word clouds.
John McCain
Barack Obama
McCain mentioned Obama quite a few times, he was after all conceding defeat. As the winner, Obama was looking more ahead, only mentioning his opponent in passing. McCain had many dominant words, esp. campaign, country, thank and variants on America. Obama was more focused with America, tonight, people and new standing out only.
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