This interesting snapshot of voters’ hopes and fears and immediate impressions of Barack Obama comes from The Washington Post’s campaign blog The Trail:
The Post explains that the cloud:
includes the top thirty-nine words mentioned, each of which was cited by 8 or more people. The size of each word represents the number of people who said it. So in this instance, the biggest word, “inexperienced,” represents 123 people, the next largest, “young,” represents 83, etc.
No wonder Bill Clinton decided to hammer Obama on the experience issue. As Marc Ambinder relates:
In a hard-changing interview with Charlie Rose tonight, Bill Clinton said Americans who are prepared to choose someone with less experience, are prepared to “roll the dice” about the future of America. “It’s less predictable, isn’t it? When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service before he’s running?” “What do you want to do — whether you think it matters that, I mean, in theory, no experience matters,” Clinton said.
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