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The Summer of Hate provides a watershed moment for “reasonable Republicans”

Posted on 2009.08.24 by winterSmith 19 comments

I’m not a Republican, but I know many people who are. I have GOP friends, co-workers and family members, and for that matter I used to be a Republican myself. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, to be sure. But it’s true. It’s no secret that I don’t agree with the GOP on much of anything

Lexical analysis of debates finds Obama and McCain startlingly similar

Posted on 2008.10.11 by winterSmith 4 comments

My colleague, Dr. Sidicious Bonesparkle, had a bit of sport last week with a Global Language Monitor analysis showing that Sarah Palin spoke at a higher grade level in the VP “debate” than did Joe Biden. As it turns out, the GLM isn’t alone in examining the language used by the presidential and vice presidential candidates.