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Posted
Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:00 AM
| By
Chadwick Matlin
Using transcripts from CNN and the New York Times debate analyzer, I crunched some stats from last night's GOP debate.
- 3: Number of times Hillary Clinton was mentioned
- 4: Number of times Bill Clinton was mentioned
- 2: Number of times Mitt Romney mentioned health care
- 0: Number of times any other candidate mentioned health care
- 5: Number of times Rudy Giuliani said "Islamic"
- 3: Number of times any other candidate said "Islamic," "Islam," or "Muslim"
- 4: Number of times Duncan Hunter addressed Anderson Cooper as "Cooper." No other candidate followed suit.
- 2: Number of times the candidates mentioned President Bush
- 26: Number of times, according to CNN's transcript, the audience laughed
- 5: Number of times the audience laughed after watching a question from a YouTube user
- 7: Number of times the audience laughed after a Fred Thompson joke
- 4: Number of times the audience laughed after a Mike Huckabee joke
- 0: Number of times the audience laughed after Ron Paul or Duncan Hunter said something
Also, a breakdown of which candidates speak the fastest. Mitt Romney's mouth was a-flappin', while Fred Thompson, unsurprisingly, was the slowest talker.
| Talker |
Words |
Seconds |
Words/sec |
| Moderator |
2174 |
812 |
2.68 |
| YouTube Questioners |
2398 |
942 |
2.55 |
| Giuliani |
3163 |
945 |
3.35 |
| Huckabee |
1942 |
587 |
3.31 |
| Hunter |
918 |
293 |
3.13 |
| McCain |
2034 |
670 |
3.04 |
| Paul |
1288 |
431 |
2.99 |
| Romney |
3223 |
831 |
3.88 |
| Tancredo |
830 |
221 |
3.76 |
| Thompson |
1841 |
625 |
2.95 |
If you'd like, feel free to compare the words-per-second statistics to the Democrats'.