The Boston Globe uses the ingenious online tool Wordle to turn both candidates' blogs into rather attractive word clouds, in which the most-used words are displayed the largest, and presents its take on the results. One overwhelmingly obvious fact emerges: the Obama campaign can't stop talking about Barack Obama, and the McCain campaign can't stop talking about Barack Obama, either. You can, of course, use these facts to convict Obama of self-absorption or McCain of relentless negative-attackery, as is your wont. You can also create your own word clouds from any text or web pages here. I quite seriously wonder whether this might not be a more enlightening way of analysing the candidates' messages than actually, you know, listening to their words in the right order.
UPDATE: Commenter catabolickid sends along a link to an engrossing site that does a similar thing for major presidential speeches from 1776 to 2007.
