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

286

14,942 words transcribed

Candidates' share

84%

6 candidates

Moderators' share

16%

moderators, panellists, questioners

Crosstalk markers

0 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	Reading grade
Bush	Candidates	55	2,346	15.7%	14	246	5.7
McCain	Candidates	32	2,157	14.4%	16	268	7.8
Keyes	Candidates	15	2,143	14.3%	177	286	8.4
Hatch	Candidates	13	1,987	13.3%	166	372	6.3
Forbes	Candidates	23	1,926	12.9%	51	255	6.5
Bauer	Candidates	33	1,923	12.9%	22	234	6.8
Russert	Moderators, panellists and questioners	92	1,512	10.1%	6	159	5.2
Albin	Moderators, panellists and questioners	14	567	3.8%	33	110	6.9
Geha	Moderators, panellists and questioners	9	381	2.5%	25	110	8.0

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