Last night on CNN, the mass public finally got to the first of three Presidential Debates for this year's 2016 election. I was tasked with watching the debate and analyzing the most popular general words (or phrases, if the word is connected). I apologize, some wouldn't work out otherwise. But anyways, the election provided the humor we knew we were all expecting, all the low-and-high blows, interruptions, and so on. Overall, I'd say Trump won the debate, but Clinton certainly held her own, but I'll let the polls and the talking heads decide that tomorrow.
Maybe our candidates are a little more similar in what they care about than the public thinks, which can be seen below. What we will not fully know, however, until later on, is in which direction or what plan they have for these priorities of theirs.
So a couple things here stuck out to me. So any variation of the word "jobs(s)" came in the most, around 44 words, according to my tallies. After that, the conversation continued to focus mainly on the economy, bringing companies back home, how different tax rates would do that, and, of course, how Donald Trump has been a job creator his whole life. Variations of winning came in high, as did references to ISIS. DonaldTalk represents every time to talked about himself, a little under 12 times. The African American community and gun control were brought up quite a bit.
Here's the thing. The candidates talked about the issues a lot but spoke in more in generalizations, although The Donald did blast Hillary for posting her national security agenda, especially in defeating ISIS, on her website. They failed to specifically discuss HOW they would create these jobs, although Donald went to his standard real estate tycoon examples to his creation in the past, and made a great point saying "It's time the country had someone in charge that knows about money." However, he also will be guaranteed misquoted when said "that makes me smart" in Hillary's claim to his lack of paying federal income taxes.
Ironically, they hardly discussed domestic issues, such as gender pay equality and racial freedoms, as you can see above. They also avoided the topics of our southern border as much as possible. Trump, again, stuck to discussing the current trade deals and how their current influences are ruining our economy.
We will see. Maybe they ramp up the specifics in debate two, or maybe not. I'd give Donald the slight edge here, but with Hillary nevertheless holding her ground. It's a tight race, and I remind everyone to vote for what they believe in, not what the crowd wants. I actually wrote an article last week about the power of the hidden online masses that move many social and political phenomenon of the day. You can read that here, especially before you go vote this November.
And remember, use your own head, not your family's, your friend's, or so on before you cast your vote as to what America you want to see in the next 4 years.