Posted by Darrell J. Rohl on November 4th, 2008

The election’s today. Do your duty and vote.

Don’t give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight. Fight for a new direction for our country. Fight for what’s right for America.

Fight to clean up the mess of corruption, infighting and…

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Posted by Darrell J. Rohl on November 3rd, 2008

Last week, I posted an article on using tag clouds to visualize the main messages given by Barack Obama and John McCain. The original post focused only on speeches given by the candidates between Monday, October 20 and Sunday, October 26. If…

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Posted by Darrell J. Rohl on October 27th, 2008

In these last two weeks before the US elections, I thought it would be interesting to analyze the respective messages being given by Barack Obama and John Mccain. Through an analysis of their actual words, taken from speech transcripts over…

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Posted by Darrell J. Rohl on October 23rd, 2008

Special thanks to my friend Owen Chesnut for alerting me to this video. I must say that while I’m not too surprised to see Ron Howard or Henry Winkler support Barack Obama, it’s a little surprising to hear that Andy Griffith…

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Posted by Darrell J. Rohl on September 8th, 2008

Just a few months ago, there was a sense of inevitability regarding the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. That was dashed to pieces by the upstart Obama, who has captured the hearts and hopes of so many in America (and abroad!).…

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