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Winning Words

The United States of America boasts the world’s longest streak of uninterrupted peaceful transferences of governing power for any country. Over that 200-year stretch, one of the most important rituals has been the election night victory speech, Explore the recurring themes that bind the last 44 years of American presidential victory speeches, and how 2016 compares

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GUNNING-FOG INDEX
The Gunning-Fog index measures the complexity of English communications, and estimates the years of formal education needed to understand them. The index is calculated through an algorithm that accounts for sentence length and the difficulty of vocabulary used

LEXICAL DENSITY
Lexical density is the number of lexical words, nouns, verbs and adverbs that convey meaning and content, divided by the total number of words in a text. Linguists use lexical density to measure the informative content of communications