Did anyone do a word count on the debate?

[grasswire]

How many words for Romney vs. how many words for Obama?

I might do that if no one has already done so. It might be interesting.

[darkangel218]

1. What good would it do?

Imo, we need to get over the first debate and focus to the next 2.

[LiberalFighter]

2. I betcha Romney said more cause he talks faster.

Liars tend to talk faster

[darkangel218]

3. I dont doubt that a bit.

But we really need to get over that debate. We're shooting ourself in the foot by dwelling on it.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Actually, the President had a higher word count

The counts were published in news reports after the debate.

[grasswire]

7. actually...

from The Atlantic:

We've noted the Barack Obama's "intellectual stammer" before, but just how much did it slow him down last night? Well, despite talking four minutes less than Obama, Mitt Romney was able to speak 541 more words. Michael Brendan Dougherty tweeted the statistic, and we went to this CNN transcript to check it out. Obama's word count was 7,350 words during the course of the debate, while Mitt Romney got out 7,891. Josh Barro at Bloomberg View deemed the fact that Obama took up four more minutes of time the "most surprising" of the debate. Barro said that because "Romney seemed to have far more to say than Obama."

So Rom got in more words total in significantly less time.

[pinboy3niner]

8. Thanks--I had just tracked that down and was about to post

[vanlassie]

5. I am certain I heard that the Pres had slightly more time

But that Rmoney had 500 more words.

[Mister Ed]

6. Here's just the guy to do it!

Don't mess with PBS!