Candidate Wordles

They're called "tag clouds". The theory is that they can give a good representation of what someone is all about. Or ....at least...provide some interesting insight...kind of a "come inside my mind".

How they work
The more frequently a word is spoken (printed) the greater that word's size appears in the 'tag cloud'. What one can glean from that is that the larger the word, the more importance it holds for the speaker.

How we did it
We took candidate answers to questions posed by the STAR, the Isthmus/League of Women Voters, and SP-EYE. Obviously, since Diedrich and McCourt refused to respond to the latter two, we had less to work with. So...keep that in mind.

We also removed any references to other candidates (admittedly, it was kind of creepy that Diedrich and McCourt must have frequently referred to one another....make of that what you will).

Finally, we removed the words "school, schools, and board" because they kept popping up.

What was left, we found...well...interesting. Here they are...

ok...so maybe McCourt never really said "seabass". How did that get in there!