How does Obama’s first year State of the Union Address compare to other recent Presidents? Below are word clouds, based on the number of times a word was mentioned in the speech, for the first-year SOTUs of Reagan through Obama.

Barack Obama (January 27, 2010)

sotu_2010_word_cloud

George W. Bush (January 29, 2002)

George_W_Bush_SOTU

Bill Clinton (January 25, 1994)

Clinton_SOTU

George H.W. Bush (January 31, 1990)

George_HW_Bush_SOTU

Ronald Reagan (January 26, 1982)

Reagan_SOTU

Comments (7)

7 Comments

Wordle: President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address
January 28th, 2010 | 3:49 am

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Michael Murad
January 28th, 2010 | 11:33 am

“Ronald Reagan (January 26, 1992)” either has the wrong president or the wrong date. Or it’s not a State of the Union address.

Joe Carter
January 28th, 2010 | 11:39 am

Thanks, Michael. I corrected that to “1982.”

Charlie Collier
January 28th, 2010 | 11:56 am

I guess God doesn’t have much to do with the State of the Union.

Marc
January 28th, 2010 | 7:35 pm

You are right. He really doesn’t. Nothing whatsoever.

ahem
January 28th, 2010 | 8:18 pm

You forgot the word, “I”.

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