Sep 30 2008
Obama v. McCain, Part 1
I just watched the first debate between Obama and McCain via a file I downloaded P2P. (Note: It was interesting to see how many people were seeding that particular file: either a lot of people missed it or there are people all over the world who are interested.)
I thought I would Wordle the responses. I’ve only taken the larger portions of text from the CNN transcript so this represents only about 93% of their actual words:
Obama’s Wordle
McCain’s Wordle
I have no idea what it means, but you might…
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Very cool use of the tool. What if you took this into a current affairs class and didn’t tell students which Wordle belonged to which candidate? That could be a interesting discussion.
A fantastic idea Jeff! Looking back at both of them, I would have a hard time deciding whose was whose. I guess that means that neither of them really had a consistent message. I hope I can do it with the VP debate coming up. How prominent is ‘hockey’ and ‘Russia’ going to be???