Clinton, Sanders Strike the Same Emotional Chords in Latest Democratic Debate

Using my new AnalyzeThis app, I analyzed the full text of the candidates’ comments during last night’s Democratic Debate. The app looks for emotional keywords in six categories: Wellbeing, Anger, Spirituality, Money, Anxiety and Mortality. It computes a 1-to-10 score for each category based on the ratios of those words in the text to ratios found in a large database of sampled text. It also offers a word cloud that shows the keywords and highlights those that appeared most frequently.

Here’s a summary of the scores for the two remaining Democratic candidates and the seven Republican candidates who were in the “main event” of last week’s last Republican debate. (Comments of the moderators were removed.)

Clinton and Sander continue to strike consistent and similar emotional tones. The word clouds for their most recent Wellbeing scores look like this:

As before, the Democratic candidates show slightly higher Wellbeing and lower Anger scores than their Republican counterparts. The word clouds for both parties’ most recent Wellbeing scores look like this (Democrats on the left, of course):

Originally published at simonstuff.net.