Presidential Debate Analysis

[BioGeek]

The Guardian writes:

Bloggers are a resourceful bunch: they like nothing better than to "fact check (insert name of candidate or journalist)'s ass".

MIT Media Lab graduate student Cameron Marlow has done wonders with Perl to create a tool to help bloggers analyse transcripts of the presidential debates. Just plug in a well-worn phrase - say, "war on terror" - and up pops a phrase count (Bush 11, Kerry 7, for the record).

Marlow lists the candidates' top 25 phrases during the first Bush-Kerry clash, and repeats the exercise or last night's vice-presidential debate: Cheney's top three phases were Saddam Hussein (11), fact of the matter (10) and United States (10), while Edwards' were John Kerry (36), American people (28) and tax cuts (16).

[zentara]

OT: Humour

If you are a cynic about the upcoming "selections", and need a laugh, check out this flash, which compares the "selections" to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. :-)

Presidential Horror Show

[gothic_mallard]

Wonder if we could get this working on British politics too... or actually whether we'd want to ;-)

[Your Mother]

Semi-OT: http://www.eod.com/americanpeople/ is by a rather nice hacker fellow I've met online and I suspect it's written in Perl. Filters "The American People" from election news feeds and presents captions and links.