Thursday, October 16, 2008

Michael is right

Obama's word count:

McCain's word count:

6 comments:

Michael said...

54%. Huh. No way I could have perceived that difference. Guess I just hate listening to the guy.

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.

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.

Stephanie said...
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Stephanie said...

Oops. Didn't do apples/apples. Once again:

Obama: 5.57 characters/word
McCain: 5.49 characters/word

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.