Difference between revisions of "Linguistic Analysis of Candidates"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(→Analysis: Giulani's score: 0) |
(→Analysis: Duncan Hunter's score is "2") |
||
| Line 117: | Line 117: | ||
|0 | |0 | ||
|1 | |1 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |1 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |Duncan Hunter's CPAC Speech<ref>[http://republican.electionblogger.com/gohunter08/public_html/article.php?story=20070307030434734 | ||
| + | Duncan Hunter's Speech at the 2007 CPAC]</ref> | ||
| + | |'''2''' | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
| + | |0 | ||
|0 | |0 | ||
|0 | |0 | ||
| Line 148: | Line 172: | ||
|0 | |0 | ||
|0 | |0 | ||
| − | | | + | |2 |
|0 | |0 | ||
|0 | |0 | ||
Revision as of 22:12, January 18, 2009
The race for the White House in 2012 has begun, as have key congressional primary races in 2010. Assessing their conservatism may be as simple as counting the frequency of their references to conservative concepts in their speeches and writings.
Potential Republican candidates for president include:
as a baseline, John McCain can also be analyzed linguistically.
Key congressional candidates facing primary challenges include:
The 20 key conservative terms are:
- Bureaucracy (search on "bureaucra")
- Death tax
- Deregulation (search on "deregulat")
- Dumb down
- Elitism (search on "elitis")
- Free enterprise/market
- Grassroots
- Homeschool (sometimes hyphenated)
- Illegal alien
- Meritocracy
- Phonics
- Politically correct (also political correctness)
- Privatize (search on "privatiz")
- Pro-life
- Property right
- Quota
- Self-defense
- Self-indulgence (search on "self-indulgen")
- Small business
- Victimization
Analysis
| Candidate | Total | Bureaucracy | Death tax | Deregulation | Dumb down | Elitism | Free enterprise/market | Grassroots | Homeschool | Illegal alien | Meritocracy | Phonics | Politically correct | Privatize | Pro-life | Property right | Quota | Self-defense | Self-indulgence | Small business | Victimization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCain's CPAC Speech[1] | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Palin's RNC Speech[2] | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Huckabee's RNC Speech[3] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duncan Hunter's CPAC Speech[4] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Senator Arlen Specter's Speech[5] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Giuliani's RNC Speech[6] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
References
- ↑ McCain at 2008 CPAC
- ↑ Palin's Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention
- ↑ Huckabee's Speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention
- ↑ [http://republican.electionblogger.com/gohunter08/public_html/article.php?story=20070307030434734 Duncan Hunter's Speech at the 2007 CPAC]
- ↑ Senator Arlen Specter
- ↑ Giulani's Speech to 2008 RNC