What Speech Patterns Say About the Presidential Candidates

[question everything]

From the Good Reads Forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016150491

The most optimistic candidate? That’s Hillary Clinton. The most self-certain among the contenders? Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders. And the seemingly contradictory ball of confidence and insecurity? Donald Trump.

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Like Mr. Cruz, Mrs. Clinton was analytical in approach, but her words indicated more cognitive processing, rather than self-certainty, a signal that a topic at hand is complex. Her language was more optimistic than the others, and based on the resemblance of her words to those used by previous presidents in their inaugural addresses, she was the most presidential.

[SharonClark]

1. Makes sense

Another study said Hillary uses action and future words while Bernie uses negative and present words.

[Her Sister]

2. yes think this one! from 538

These Are The Phrases That Sanders And Clinton Repeat Most
By MILO BECKMAN

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/these-are-the-phrases-that-sanders-and-clinton-repeat-most/

The differences here are stark, and they line up well with the dominant narrative of this race. Clinton is the candidate of action, stressing strong verbs and first-person pronouns; Sanders is the protest candidate, listing problems that he thinks need more attention. Read from top to bottom, the former secretary of state’s talking points resemble a cover letter put through a blender; the Vermont senator’s list reads like a socialist stream of consciousness of American problems with Scandinavian solutions.

For all the talk of Clinton’s stilted performances and Sanders’s from-the-gut delivery, the latter is the more repetitive candidate by far. I expected to see “millionaires and billionaires” in Sanders’s top 20 but had to scroll through dozens of higher-scoring phrases like “corporate America” and “Goldman Sachs” before finding it at No. 72.

[question everything]

5. I think that Reagan was one of the worst president

in that he ushered the religious wrong into the political life and his "voodoo economic" started the merger and acquisition that resulted in so many loss of good jobs while bankers and lawyers got their spoils - win or lose.

Still, many voters liked his sunny disposition, his apparent optimism, his "morning in America" and the "shining city on the hill."

Even with all the anger that is being fanned by social media, I think that Americans still like to have their president personable, someone who is positive about the future and not just anger. And I am glad that Hillary is presenting such an image. I hope she will continue through the campaign and beyond.

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R

[Thinkingabout]

4. And the tone, Hillary speaks with assurance and message delivered is realistic.

Sanders gives the same speech, sounds angry, shouts. When shouting starts is when many years the shouting this is all they hear is the shouting and never the message.