Democratic National Convention vs. Republican National Convention 2008 keyword analysis

Denver skyline at night.

I was just thinking today that I should find a way to look over the speeches given and analyze the keywords, when I came home and it turns out that the New York Times has already done the whole thing. I'm glad they did. Here's the breakdown of the most common words, with frequency per 25,000 words spoken:

Democratic National Congress:

• Change - 89
• McCain - 78
• Energy - 49
• Bush - 46
• Jobs - 39
• Health care - 34
• Economy - 32
• War - 26
• Tax(es) - 26
• Iraq - 25
• God - 22
• Four more years - 14
• Business(es) - 13
• Terror(ism) / terrorist(s) - 8
• Reform - 6
• Cheney - 6
• Vice president - 6
• Iran - 5
• Sept. 11 - 4
• Character - 3
• Immigration - 3
• Hurricane - 1
• Hockey mom(s) - 0

Republican National Congress:

• God - 43
• Tax(es) - 42
• Change - 30
• Business(es) - 30
• Energy - 26
• Obama - 25
• Reform(s) - 22
• War - 20
• Jobs - 18
• Character - 17
• Iraq - 16
• Health care - 15
• Economy - 15
• Vice president - 14
• Terror(ism) / terrorist(s) - 8
• Bush - 7
• Hurricane - 7
• Hockey mom(s) - 4
• Sept. 11 - 2
• Iran - 2
• Immigration - 1
• Four more years - 0
• Cheney - 0

...and there. I made a new chart with the same numbers to more directly compare the words one party used with the other's. Here it is: