Mad Money Machine

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