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  Talking the Talk

  Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 10:35 AM | By Chadwick Matlin

  Using data from the indispensable New York Times’ debate analyzer , I crunched some word-per-second numbers from last night’s debate. Dodd talks faster than Biden and Richardson speaks the slowest of all. Clinton and Obama’s cadences, meanwhile, are in sync.

  Talker	Words	Seconds of talk	Words/sec
  Moderators	4131	1435	2.88
  Audience	719	304	2.37
  Biden	1906	586	3.25
  Clinton	2944	953	3.09
  Dodd	1564	446	3.51
  Edwards	2010	627	3.21
  Kucinich	1119	355	3.15
  Obama	3339	1081	3.09
  Richardson	2199	838	2.62

  
  
  Filed under: Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, debate, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden

About Chadwick Matlin

• Chadwick Matlin is the staff reporter for Slate's The Big Money, a new business site launching in the fall. He can be reached at Chadwick.Matlin+TH@gmail.com

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