John McCain
The Word on McCain
SOURCE: Washington Post poll conducted by telephone Nov. 28 to Dec. 2, among a random national sample of 1,007 adults.
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 Arizona Sen. John McCain. It includes the top forty-six words mentioned, each of which was cited by 7 or more people. The size of each word represents the number of people who said it. So in this instance, the biggest word, "old," represents 67 people, the next largest, "veteran," represents 62, etc. More than 560 words were mentioned for McCain by 58 percent of adults (32 percent expressed no opinion, 9 percent had never heard of him and 1 percent refused).
See candidate tag clouds for John Edwards and Fred Thompson.
--Jennifer Agiesta
Posted at 8:01 AM ET on Dec 13, 2007
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Posted by: jade7243 | December 13, 2007 10:45 AM
In the upper right-hand corner of the image is the word "not". Is that word part of a phrase, or was it counted individually? For instance, if one respondent says the word "*something*" and another says "not *something*", would that be counted as two "points" for the word "*something*" and one "point" for the word "not"? If so, the cloud could be misleading.
Posted by: tjmaness | December 13, 2007 9:24 AM
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Where is HILLARY CLINTON'S and MITT ROMNEY'S TAG CLOUD????
No Excuses! WaPo, your bias is showing.