7 Sep 2012

Read my lips: Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney

Did he really say “America” 52 times? Compare the presidential acceptance speeches of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, using our Snowcloud word cruncher.

On 6 September, Barack Obama accepted his party’s nomination to run in the November 2012 US presidential election, in a speech to delegates at the Democratic national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Click the image below, then roll the cursor over the words in the window to see how many times they were used in the speech

On 30 August, Mitt Romney accepted his party’s nomination to run in the November 2012 US presidential election, in a speech to delegates at the Republican national convention in Tampa, Florida.

Click the image below, then roll the cursor over the words in the window to see how many times they were used in the speech