Keyword Analysis Of The McCain And Obama Acceptance Speeches

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Some extracts:

- most used word by Obama - "promise" (31 times) and by McCain - "country" (30 times)

- Under issues, Obama's top word "economy" and McCain "jobs"

- Two-word phrase used most by Obama was "John McCain" (15 times

Heh. Obama mentions McCain very often and McCain mentions Obama very often. They might as well give speeches for each other!

Also check out these visualizations (StreamGraph, Document Contrast, Document Cloud) of the Obama McCain speeches:

(stumbled on this site via Summize - if you have not seen this site before - Neoformix is all about 'illustrating patterns in data')

McCain spent half of his acceptance speech talking about himself...

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