I had a bit of spare time this morning, so I thought I'd go through the transcripts and split out the texts of both Senator Obama and Senator McCain's debate answers and see what the wordclouds looked like. Here are the results:
For Obama:
For McCain:
I've not had enough coffee to offer much interpretation, but two things stuck out for me at the outset- first, in Obama's cloud, the prominence of the couplet "Just think", I found that telling.
Second, in McCain's cloud, how prominent do Senator Obama appear? Does McCain have some projection issues?
Any thoughts?
Update: These were generated via wordle, and here is another version of Obama's cloud with the same style as McCains:
Update II: And here's the all-horizontal layout for McCain: