The Most Repeated Words in Last Nights’ Debate and What They Mean for 2016

The first Democractic debate set up some of the keywords to expect in 2016's election cycle.

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Last night's Democratic debate offered few surprises. A confident Hillary Clinton battled a passionate Bernie Sanders as a few also-rans tried to their damnedest inject themselves into the national conversation. Though the proceedings left us thinking that Lincoln Chafee would make a fine librarian or adjunct professor, that Jim Webb could kill anyone of us if he felt like it, and that Martin O'Malley could play in the big leagues some day, this is still a two-horse race. The polished moderate Clinton is going to push compromise while disheveled left-winger Sanders will continue to make his case for economic revolution. 

This first Democratic debate also gave us a sense of what issues will dominate the conversation leading up to 2016. There were some very clear themes running through the debate, from old stand-bys  like "gun control" to newcomers to the conversation like "Black Lives Matter." Though marginal candidates like Chafee and Webb don't seem long for this race, some of the words and phrases we heard last night are going to stick around right through the general election. Here are The Most Repeated Words in Last Nights’ Debate and What They Mean for 2016.

 

"Progressive"

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"Economic Injustice"

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"Quagmire"

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"Black Lives Matter"

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"Emails"

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"NRA"

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"Undocumented Immigrant"

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"Climate Change"

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"Middle Class"

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