McCain a Straight Shooter, Obama a Spinner

Posted by The Anon Guy on March 19, 2008 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Well, according to a Canadian computer science professor. Oh, and a flowchart to help future politicians decide if $1,000 an hour call girls are worth it.

Queen’s University professor David Skillicorn analyzed the speeches of John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and determined the Straight Talk Express may be for real. In his examination of spin words and phrases, McCain scored the highest for lack of spin. The GOP nominee had a 2.0, Clinton a 0.6 and Obama a -1.3. Skillicorn noted, however, a recent change in Obama’s speeches, “I can only imagine that … he is absolutely convinced that he can’t lose, so all of a sudden his spin level has dropped dramatically.”
For politicians weighing the pros and cons of hiring a high-priced hooker, comes help in the form of the official Eliot Spitzer Flow Chart (aka “How to Not Bang a Prostitute”).
This made quite the splash back in 2007 but the resulting rush meant the site was always overloaded. So we checked back in and WikiScanner is still up, running and not quite as busy. Basically, you can see who has been making anonymous Wiki edits to entries of interest to them. The slight downside? The archive covers only February 7th, 2002 to August 4th, 2007.