The New York Times has begun producing a useful debate transcript analyzer. The analyzer allows you to not only view the video and transcript of a debate, but also view how much time the candidates had to speak, how many words they said, and the order in which they spoke. This tool can be [...]

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The Reagan Library Republican Debate finished just a couple hours ago and even though there were four candidates on stage, CNN’s Anderson Cooper was primarily focused on John McCain and Mitt Romney. Mike Huckabee twice made the point that he was not getting nearly as many questions asked of him as of the titular front [...]

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Anderson Cooper, the moderator of the CNN/YouTube Republican debate, made a point of telling the candidates at the start that they were expected to address the questions asked and not drift off onto other subjects. “Americans put a lot of time into submitting these questions. We think they deserve direct answers. ” In that [...]

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I analyzed the Democratic candidates’ ability to give straight answers to questions during the NBC debate on October 30, 2007. I have done this before with the Republican candidates in their third debate and the Democrats in their second, third, and fourth debates. There have been a few debates between then and now that [...]

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As I suffer through the increasing obfuscation of the Bush administration, I’m looking for a candidate who can give a clear answer to a clear question. I’ve had enough ridiculous parsing of every word that emanates from the White House and the tortuous Orwellian logic used to try to convince me that ignoring the Constitution [...]

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The YouTube Democratic debate analysis is in! I analyzed the candidates’ ability to give a straight answer to each question during the debate. The goal is the same as it was when I analyzed the Republican candidates in their third debate and the Democrats in their second and third debates. I don’t evaluate the merits [...]

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I analyzed the Democrat candidates’ ability to answer a question the most recent debate. The goal is the same as it was when I analyzed the Republican candidates in their third debate and the Democrats in their second debate. If you’re looking for the analysis of the YouTube debate, you can find it here.
Who among [...]

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This on Think Progress:
Yesterday on MSNBC’s Hardball, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) defended Ann Coulter’s attacks on John Edwards, including that she wishes he “had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”
He said that Elizabeth Edwards’s calls to stop making “personal attacks” against her family were attempts to “silence conservative voices.” He added that Coulter “is [...]

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As promised, I analyzed the Democrat candidates’ ability to respond to direct questions with clear answers in their second debate. The goal is the same as it was when I analyzed the Republican candidates in their third debate.
I wanted to discover who among them is most likely to answer the question asked, who prefers [...]

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I analyzed the Republican candidates’ ability to respond to direct questions with clear answers in the third debate. The results were surprising and revealing. I’m even handing out awards based on their performance!
The goal was to determine who among them is most likely to answer the question asked, who prefers giving hollow answers by speaking [...]

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