2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDemocrats crush Republicans in grammar
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 OMalley 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://www.myajc.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/democrats-crush-republicans-in-grammar/nnwb8/
At least we can all agree that the GOP candidates reflect their constituency pool.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...Kevin McCarthy. That should be a hoot.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)Dukakis spoke at an 8th grade level, Bush Pere spoke at a 5th grade level.