Primary · Republican · 10 January 2000

Republican Presidential Candidates Debate at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan

The archive holds another transcript of this event under the same title. Both were collected and are kept as they are: the other version.

Speaking turns

273

14,906 words transcribed

Candidates' share

83%

6 candidates

Moderators' share

17%

moderators, panellists, questioners

Crosstalk markers

22 turns end on a dash

The debate, turn by turn

Read left to right: each block is one turn, placed where it falls in the running word count and as wide as it is long.

Candidates Moderators, panellists, questioners Audience, recorded clips, unidentified

A stand-in for talk time.

Ticks are single turns; boxes span the middle half; the heavy bar is the median.

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Speakers in the Republican Presidential Candidates Debate at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Speaker	Role	Turns	Words	Share	Median turn	Longest	Ends on a dash	Reading grade
Bush	Candidates	57	2,353	15.8%	13	248	4	5.8
Keyes	Candidates	14	2,146	14.4%	183	285	1	8.4
Hatch	Candidates	11	2,003	13.4%	189	374	1	6.9
Bauer	Candidates	30	1,949	13.1%	23	237	5	7.4
McCain	Candidates	26	1,930	12.9%	32	270	3	7.9
Forbes	Candidates	21	1,922	12.9%	56	254	0	7.3
Russert	Moderators, panellists and questioners	91	1,519	10.2%	6	163	4	5.6
Albin	Moderators, panellists and questioners	12	558	3.7%	43	113	2	7.8
Geha	Moderators, panellists and questioners	10	404	2.7%	25	109	2	7.8
Weiker	Moderators, panellists and questioners	1	122	0.8%	122	122	0	14.9

The notebook's own Participants and Moderators fields, reproduced exactly by the TypeScript port.