Political Tag Clouds

FDR’s “On the Currency Situation” (Sunday, October 22, 1933)

cjolesh — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:04:40 +0000

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fourth Fireside Chat. Part of our Fireside Chat Project, you can see the others here.

Original text can be found at http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat4.html

Process notes: tag cloud created using wordle.net. United States changed to UnitedStates, $ or dollar changed to dollars, % or per cent changed to percent, and NRA changed to National Recovery Administration (mainly because modern readers might have identified it as National Rifle Association).

George W. Bush’s Weekly Radio Address (November 14, 2008)

jbushnell — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:32:26 +0000

Transcript taken from here. This is part of a series on White House Radio Addresses, you can compare it against others from this fall here.

Process notes: “market” and “markets” were combined for improved frequency analysis, as were “economy” and “economies.” No other changes made. Tag cloud generated by Wordle.net.

George W. Bush’s Third “State of the Union” Address (January 28, 2003)

jbushnell — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:01:01 +0000

Transcript taken from here. This is part of a project on George W. Bush’s State of the Union addresses, others are visible here.

Process notes: Tag cloud created by Wordle.net. Some words combined into phrases for improved frequency analysis: “Saddam Hussein” is combined as “SaddamHussein,” “Al Qaeda” is combined as “AlQaeda,” “United States” is combined as “UnitedStates.” “Million,” when used with a number, is combined with that number (so “92 million” is counted as “92million,” but “a million” is treated separately.) Possessive apostrophes have been removed along with their accompanying “s”s, so “America’s” is counted along with “America,” for instance.

FDR’s “On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program” (Monday, July 24, 1933)

cjolesh — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:54:40 +0000

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Third Fireside Chat. See the others here.

Process notes: worker changed to workers, employer changed to employers, principle changed to principles, planning or plans changed to plan, industrial or industries changed to industry, foundations changed to foundation, farmers or farming or farms changed to farm, employer changed to employers, efforts changed to effort, agreement changed to agreements.

Read the original text at http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat3.html.

George W. Bush’s Weekly Radio Address (October 25, 2008)

jbushnell — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:13:20 +0000

Transcript taken from here. This is part of a series on White House Radio Addresses, you can compare it against others from this fall here.

Process notes: tag cloud created at Wordle.net. All multi-word proper nouns (“Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,” “United States” etc.) have been treated as compound words (“FederalDepositInsuranceCorporation,” “UnitedStates,” etc.), no other changes made.

John McCain’s Concession Speech (Tuesday, November 4, 2008)

jbushnell — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:44:42 +0000

Transcript taken from here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96631784&ft=1&f=1001. Contrast it against other McCain clouds here.

Process notes: Word cloud created by wordle.net. Some words combined into phrases for improved frequency analysis: “Senator Obama” now “SenatorObama”, and when used as an adjective, “American” has been combined with its noun.

Barack Obama’s Presidential Acceptance Speech (Tuesday, November 4, 2008)

cjolesh — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:08:44 +0000

Transcript from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110500013_pf.html

Process notes: word cloud created by Wordle.net. Some phrases combined for improved frequency analysis: “Yes we can” changed to YesWeCan, “White House” changed to WhiteHouse.

George W. Bush’s Weekly Radio Address (October 18, 2008)

jbushnell — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:37:26 +0000

Transcript taken from here. This is part of a series of White House Radio Addresses, you can compare it against others from this fall here.

Process notes: tag cloud created by Wordle.net. Some words and phrases combined for improved frequency analysis: “700 billion” is now “700billion,” “government” and “government’s” are combined as “government.”

FDR’s “Outlining the New Deal Program” (Sunday, May 7, 1933)

cjolesh — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:31:57 +0000

This is the 2nd of thirty Fireside Chats Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave between March 12, 1933 and June 12, 1944. It is part of our FDR Fireside Chat project.

The text is unaltered, and was taken from this transcript:
http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat2.html

George Bush’s State of the Union Address, Jan 29, 2002 (“Axis of Evil” speech)

jbushnell — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:30:11 +0000

First of a project of Bush’s State of the Union addresses. Transcript taken from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html.

Some process notes: Tag cloud created using Wordle.net. Some words combined into phrases for a more precise frequency analysis: “September the 11th” is combined as “SeptemberThe11th,” “United States” is combined as “UnitedStates,” “Thank you” is combined as “ThankYou.” “American” and “terrorist,” when used as adjectives, have been combined with their nouns (so “American people” is now “Americanpeople,” for instance). Possessive apostrophes have been removed along with their accompanying “s”s, so “Afghanistan’s” is counted along with “Afghanistan,” for instance.