I've really fallen in love with this site, "Five Thirty Eight" which collates polling data and formulates them into electoral vote projections. I'm following the election closely, and this speaks to that interest, but, just the same, it appeals to my love of information graphics.

In tonight's speech, John McCain uses the word "I" more than any other. He uses the word "fight" (20 times) more than "country" (16 times).

Among the words used only once:

• dependence
• happiness
• reason
• citizen
• earth
• character
• community
• decent
• wage
• diplomatic

Barack Obama's speech by contrast has these among its most frequent words:

• promise (31)
• America (26)
• American (18)
• Country (16)

Obama uses "fight" only twice.

This one deserves its own entry.