State of the Union stats

Posted By Blake Hounshell Monday, January 28, 2008 - 9:37 PM Share

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:

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

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

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