The past several months (this election cycle is starting ridiculously early!) have brought voters a bunch of tools from newspaper.coms to help cut through the blabber and compare messages.
The New York Times just launched one of these tools earlier this week. The tool is a graphic representation of the Oct. 30 Democratic presidential candidate debate.
To be honest, I thought the page hadn’t loaded correctly when I first looked at it, but the boxes show how long each candidate spoke and in what order, plus it allows you to search on a term such as “Iraq” to see how many times each candidate mentioned the word. (See screenshot below). Each box also has a pop-up of that portion of the debate transcript. The second tab has the entire debate video and transcript.
It’s a fun tool to play with, and particularly useful for voters who are interested in one specific issue. Good idea!
