Primary · Republican · 30 January 2008

Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Simi Valley, California

Speaking turns

199

16,451 words transcribed

Candidates' share

84%

4 candidates

Moderators' share

16%

moderators, panellists, questioners

Crosstalk markers

28 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 in Simi Valley, California
Speaker	Role	Turns	Words	Share	Median turn	Longest	Ends on a dash	Reading grade
Romney	Candidates	40	5,312	32.3%	38	427	10	7.2
McCain	Candidates	37	3,880	23.6%	26	484	6	7.9
Huckabee	Candidates	13	3,225	19.6%	238	440	0	8.8
Cooper	Moderators, panellists and questioners	77	1,678	10.2%	12	165	10	6.3
Paul	Candidates	10	1,385	8.4%	137	277	2	6.5
Hook	Moderators, panellists and questioners	11	549	3.3%	55	99	0	9.4
VanDeHei	Moderators, panellists and questioners	8	422	2.6%	57	74	0	8.8
Unidentified	Audience, recorded clips and unidentified	2	0	0.0%	0	0	0	–
Audience	Audience, recorded clips and unidentified	1	0	0.0%	0	0	0	–

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