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What didn't get mentioned in last night's debate
Thu, 11/29/2007 - 10:40am

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I guess it's a small world after all. Courtesy of the New York Times' handy debate transcript analyzer, here's some evidence of the narrowness of America's current foreign-policy dialogue:
Candidate Mentions in Last Night's Debate
- Iraq: 10
- China: 5 (Tancredo and Hunter only)
- Afghanistan: 3
- Europe: 1 (a complaint from Giuliani about subsidies)
- Iran: 1
- Russia: 0
- India: 0
- North Korea: 0
- Proliferation: 0
- Nuclear: 0
- Diplomacy: 0
- Sudan or Darfur: 0
- Pakistan: 0
- United Nations: 0
Immigration? The candidates mentioned it 25 times.
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