Democrats crush Republicans in grammar; Chafee on top

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Yes, these are fighting words, but here goes: Republicans mangle the English language at twice the rate of Democrats.

According to a new study by the grammar-checking app Grammarly, supporters commenting on Democratic candidates’ Facebook pages made an average of 4.2 mistakes per 100 words compared to 8.7 mistakes for supporters of Republican candidates. The Democratic supporters also showed a larger vocabulary, using on average 300 unique words per 1,000 words, while Republicans used only 245.

The trend is starker when broken out by candidate: The five Democratic candidates — Lincoln Chafee, Jim Webb, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and Hillary Clinton — all get better Facebook grammar scores (in that order) than every Republican except Carly Fiorina, whose supporters posted the best grammar scores of any GOP candidate, tying her with Clinton.

Of the entire field, Chafee supporters are most grammatical (while also being rarest), making 3.1 errors per hundred words. Trump supporters are far more numerous but most grammatically challenged, racking up 12.6 boo-boos per hundred words. Fiorina and Clinton meet in the middle at 6.3.

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/10/06/democrats-crush-republicans-in-grammar-chafee-on-top/

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1. I can't say I'm surprised. The more rabidly conservative, the stupider.

Pretty telling that comments on EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT beat those on every single Republican, except Hillary ties Fiorina.

Also Chafee is probably the only one commenting on himself so that explains that.

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2. Ugh. I have terrible

grammar. I make no bones about it. Based on grammar alone I'm probably an idiot Trump supporter.