Obama vs. Romney: The Acceptance Speeches as Word Clouds
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Obama vs. Romney: The Acceptance Speeches as Word Clouds

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To get a quick visual representation of what President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney said in accepting their parties’ nominations this week and last, we plugged the full text of their speeches into Wordle. We used a transcript of Romney’s remarks and the text of Obama’s speech as prepared for delivery. Remember, the size of the word in the cloud is proportional to the number of times it appeared in the text. Here’s what the speeches look like:

Romney:

Obama:

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