DNC vs. RNC

Not that you haven't heard enough about the conventions in the past few weeks, but I come across this interesting article on seekingalpha.com:

... if you had watched the just-completed Democratic and Republican National Conventions, you wouldn't have known the U.S. is stumbling through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Nor would you have known, of course, that we're queuing up for a bill that could exceed total Iraq War expenditures.

... I combined the Palin/McCain acceptance speeches in one block of text, and the Obama/Biden speeches in another. I then set up some keywords to compare across the text blocks. The following summary table shows keywords in the left column, and then respective keywords counts for each party' slate in the appropriate DNC or RNC column. This isn't the usual exercise in cute tag clouds, but an attempt to understand whether important language concerning the current financial crisis penetrated the political radar over the last few weeks.

This is not scientific, of course, and it probably doesn't represent the policies proposed by each candidate that well.  However, I think it gives an indication of what each party deems important enough to emphasize during the conventions like the author says.

A little trivial thought for Saturday morning.