Secondhand Smoking Jacks: Michael is right

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Obama's word count:

McCain's word count:

Michael said...: 54%. Huh. No way I could have perceived that difference. Guess I just hate listening to the guy.; October 16, 2008 at 1:10:00 PM CDT
Michael said...: I just ran it and got very close to the same result. I would have bet a lot that wasn't the case. Guess I need to find a hat.

Hey wait a minute. What if Barry is using much bigger words? Smaller word count, more time.

Need to break out the video and stopwatch.; October 17, 2008 at 4:22:00 PM CDT
Stephanie said...: Well, characters are counted, so you can see who used bigger words. But also, one may talk faster than the other and can get more words in less time.; October 17, 2008 at 4:26:00 PM CDT
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Stephanie said...: Oops. Didn't do apples/apples. Once again:

Obama: 5.57 characters/word
McCain: 5.49 characters/word; October 17, 2008 at 4:30:00 PM CDT
Stephanie said...: When I was about 1/3 through the task of copy/pasting text, McCain has way more words that Obama. But then it evened out, and then tilted to Obama.; October 17, 2008 at 4:33:00 PM CDT

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