The Word on Thompson: An Actor
A Fred Thompson "tag cloud." (The Washington Post).
The jumble of words pictured above is called a tag cloud. We've created one for each of the front-runners profiled in the Post this week. The words are the ones respondents to a national survey most frequently used to describe the candidates.
This cloud features respondents' associations with former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson. It includes the top forty-five words mentioned, each of which was cited by 5 or more people. The size of each word represents the number of people who said it. So in this instance, the biggest word, "actor," represents 143 people, the next largest, "conservative," represents 42, etc. More than 430 words were mentioned for Thompson by 41 percent of adults (38 percent expressed no opinion, 20 percent had never heard of him and 1 percent refused).
--Jennifer Agiesta
Posted at 8:01 AM ET on Dec 12, 2007
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Posted by: infantry11b4faus | December 12, 2007 4:37 PM
I'd be interested to see the "tag clouds" for the other candidates as well. I think it's a really useful representation of the data.
Posted by: daveadams | December 12, 2007 11:07 AM
there is no corelation between "misreading the mood of the country" and time of getting into the race.
he is the only candidate to spell out a social security fix, a flat tax proposal, and an immigration plan.
all of the other candidates speak to whatecver audience they are addressing.
Posted by: fstitt | December 12, 2007 9:56 AM
FRED THOMPSON IS A GOOD MAN BUT HE MISREAD THE MOOD OF THE COUNTRY. HE NEEDED TO GET IN THE RACE EARLIER AND STRONGER.
Posted by: WHITLEEJO | December 12, 2007 9:49 AM
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fred thompson has been around working for republicans since watergate. he was counsel on the watergate committee. he worked for republicans for decades. he is not just some actor that decided to change jobs. and rember reagan was an actor and he broke the ussr - remember them - the darlings of the left.