Tag: barack obama

  • Presidential Debate Word Clouds: Romney vs Obama

    Presidential Debate Word Clouds: Romney vs Obama

    Here is a data visualization word cloud of the presidential debates last night. I took all of the things said from both candidates, no matter how mundane, from the transcript. Then I removed common English words like ‘the’ and ‘and’ and I manually corrected for uncommon edge cases like ‘governor’, in the case of Obama.…

  • Obama or Rodgers?

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  • C-SPAN Providing Social Media Hub for Conventions

    Political junkies are in the prime of their year right now. Tomorrow in Denver, the Democratic National Convention begins with the GOP convention slated to start the week after. C-SPAN is offering a social media hub for both conventions with featured tools being video giant YouTube, which will be present at the Big Tent in…

  • Barack Obama Wins the Democratic Nomination with 3441 Delegates

    Forget Independence day, also known as June 4th (Yes, I do know Independence Day is July 4th, but thanks for the correction. The statement was tongue in cheek.), also known as the day that Presidential hopeful Barack Obama claims the Democratic nomination for president. We’ve suffered through five months of primaries and caucuses and all…

  • Lessons in Brand Management from Barack Obama

    Note: This is not a political post, nor is it a political endorsement. Wednesday morning. Just about twenty-four hours have passed since Barack Obama addressed the nation on the issue of race and his relationship to firebrand pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. If you’re American, you’ve probably heard the speech by now, or at least heard…

  • Primary Endorsements

    If you’re not a U.S. citizen, please feel free to read this but also feel free to ignore. This is intended exclusively for U.S. citizens eligible to vote in the primaries (or dead people in Chicago, if you’re so inclined). First of all, since my early days as a blogger where I covered a lot…