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Oct 8, 2008 
Can we Wordle?
Yes, we can!
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
Well, here goes: this is the Wordle of all of Obama’s answers during last night’s debate, on the basis of this transcript.
Click to see large.
A hat-tip is in order: I got the idea when I saw the Wordle on The Monkey Cage of the Vice-Presidential debate. That Wordle was of everything both candidates said though, which seemed less revealing to me than what you’d get Wordling each candidate’s words separately.
I’ll do one for McCain later today..
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