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npk

(3,660 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 03:27 PM Oct 2015

Democrats 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 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://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.

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Democrats crush Republicans in grammar (Original Post) npk Oct 2015 OP
Yeahup..... daleanime Oct 2015 #1
Let's have them analyze... 3catwoman3 Oct 2015 #2
I once read about 88 race. I don't know if it was apocryphal. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #3

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
3. I once read about 88 race. I don't know if it was apocryphal.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 04:07 PM
Oct 2015

Dukakis spoke at an 8th grade level, Bush Pere spoke at a 5th grade level.

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