Politics

McCain tops the windbag index

By Mary Fitzgerald
October 28, 2008
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It's official. Thanks to this comprehensive lexical analysis of the presidential and vice-presidential debates, we now know that John McCain is, empirically, more of a windbag than Barack Obama.

Mary Fitzgerald is director of information democracy at the Open Society Foundations and former editor-in-chief of openDemocracy
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