Word Frequency Histograms of the Second US 2004 Presidential Debate

Colored by Candidate

• The most common words in spoken English
• phrases spoken more than 3 times
• all the data

Candidate-Specific

• George W. Bush (Total 7374 words spoken, average length 3.335, from a vocabulary of size 587)
• John F. Kerry (Total 7652 words spoken, average length 4.236, from a vocabulary of size 606)
• other speakers (Charles Gibson and audience speakers)

Questions and Answers

What's this?

See the page I made on the first debate for more information.

Are you doing to do the last debate?

Probably. It's pretty easy by now. But I might be able to get to it in time, since I'll be in Europe for the next week.