Mad Money Machine

by Paul Douglas Boyer

Economics of the Debate

I had the unfortunate bad luck of watching the CNN/YouTube debate of the Republican presidential candidates last night. I thought it was a shockingly horribly run affair by CNN. I will hope to not waste my time watching these again. The Internet is a much better place to learn about the candidates.

Nonetheless, I took it upon myself to do a word count of each candidate from the CNN transcript. Here are the results:

Candidate Words Time
Giuliani 3171 5:08
Romney 3105 7:03
McCain 1973 5:09
Huckabee 1950 4:14
Thompson 1575 4:38
Paul 1307 3:27
Tancredo 789 2:20
Hunter 655 2:16

Words by candidate

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