Sigmund on the US Presidential Debate (2)

I picked up the transcript of the second debate between President Bush and Senator Kerry from www.debates.org and ran it through Sigmund. The results are not particularly striking.

If you to want the bring the message home you have to repeat it over and over again. So, I also compared the two contenders with themselves (first and second debate). At first glance this seems to confirm that Bush has a number of pet conceptualisations he repeats. In contrast, the Kerry overlap is relatively small. This could be flip-flopping, but it could also be that Kerry has a bigger vocabulary and more concepts to talk about.

• What Bush and Kerry agree on first debate)
• What Bush and Kerry agree on (second debate)
• Bush on Bush: Shared conceptualisations in debate 1 and 2
• Kerry on Kerry: Shared conceptualisations in debate 1 and 2