Monday, March 15, 2010

Words to live by


Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has an interesting post up today highlighting the weight of the words used by both the pro-reform and anti- sides of the debate.

For instance, here is a shot of the most commonly used words collected by Gallup when soliciting the reasons why the 45% of Americans support reform.




And, here are the words chosen by the 48% of Americans who, if given the opportunity, would tell their member of Congress to vote against the bill.




If you want to see Gallup’s numbers for yourself, take a look.

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