State of the Union stats

Mon, 01/28/2008 - 10:37pm

Tonight, I was curious to see how U.S. President George W. Bush's use of certain words have changed from one State of the Union address to the other. Here's what I found, using the prepared remarks from this evening's speech:

<!--[if !excel]>  <![endif]--><!--The following information was generated by Microsoft Office Excel's Publish as Web Page wizard.--><!--If the same item is republished from Excel, all information between the DIV tags will be replaced.--><!-----------------------------><!--START OF OUTPUT FROM EXCEL PUBLISH AS WEB PAGE WIZARD --> <!----------------------------->

<!--[if supportMisalignedColumns]-->

Word 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
Iraq 2 22 24 27 16 34 39
Iran 2 3 1 3 6 5 7
Security 19 10 8 29 10 10 10
Terrorists 10 7 10 11 6 13 14
Terrorism 3 3 1 1 3 0 0
Killers 1 1 5 0 0 1 0
Weapons 12 27 8 3 3 3 0
Al Qaeda 1 8 3 2 3 10 11
Osama bin Laden 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Dictator 0 3 1 0 2 0 1
Evil 5 4 1 1 2 2 1
Freedom 14 5 8 21 17 3 10
Democracy 0 1 4 7 3 4 4
Liberty 2 3 1 7 4 2 8
Oil 1 0 1 0 3 9 5
Energy 3 8 2 4 8 3 4
Environment 1 4 0 1 1 3 1
Climate change 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Allies 8 3 4 3 3 2 3
Free trade 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
Trade 4 0 2 0 3 1 7
Economy 4 10 14 11 16 7 6
Prosperity 1 1 1 2 3 1 2
Tax cuts 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
Taxes 0 3 9 4 1 3 6
Social Security 2 2 2 18 3 2 1
Steroids 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Jobs 11 2 1 4 6 2 5
Health care 1 7 9 3 2 4 4
 
 

           

<!--[endif]-->

<!-----------------------------><!--END OF OUTPUT FROM EXCEL PUBLISH AS WEB PAGE WIZARD--> <!----------------------------->

UPDATE: The LA Times has a handy tool that looks at Bush's speeches in a slightly different way.

Blake Hounshell | Permalink |
( filed under: )


Advertisement