The goal of demdebates2020
is to provide access to all transcripts of
the Democratic debates of the 2020 Presidential Election.
The package includes a single dataset: debates
. This dataset
represents the spoken words of all Democratic candidates for US
president at eleven Democratic debates. The following
sources have been
used to compile the data: Washington Post, Des Moines Register and
rev.com. The dataset has the following eight columns:
speaker
: Who is speakingbackground
: Reactions from the audience, includes(APPLAUSE)
or(LAUGHTER)
- only availabe for the first seven and ninth debates
speech
: Transcribed speechtype
: Candidate, Moderator or Protestergender
: The gender of the person speakingdebate
: Which debateday
: Which day of the debate- first and second debate were held on two separate days
order
: The order in which the speech acts were delivered
There are two ways in which you can access the dataset.
- Read .csv file directly from GitHub
debates_url <- "https://github.com/raw/favstats/demdebates2020/master/data/debates.csv"
debates <- readr::read_csv(debates_url)
- Install and load the R package like this:
devtools::install_github("favstats/demdebates2020")
library(demdebates2020)
demdebates2020::debates %>%
dplyr::slice(1508:1510) %>%
knitr::kable()
speaker | background | speech | type | gender | debate | day | order |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bernie Sanders | NA | One of the differences - one of the differences that Joe and I have in our record is Joe voted for that war, I helped lead the opposition to that war, which was a total disaster. | Candidate | male | 1 | 2 | 759 |
Bernie Sanders | (APPLAUSE) | NA | Candidate | male | 1 | 2 | 760 |
Bernie Sanders | NA | Second of all, I helped lead the effort for the first time to utilize the War Powers Act to get the United States out of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, which is the most horrific humanitarian disaster on Earth. | Candidate | male | 1 | 2 | 761 |
Check out this blog post for some more data exploration.
- Debate 1, Day 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/27/transcript-night-one-first-democratic-debate-annotated/
- Debate 1, Day 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/28/transcript-night-first-democratic-debate/
- Debate 2, Day 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/31/transcript-first-night-second-democratic-debate/
- Debate 2, Day 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/01/transcript-night-second-democratic-debate/
- Debate 3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/13/transcript-third-democratic-debate/
- Debate 4: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/15/october-democratic-debate-transcript/
- Debate 5: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/21/transcript-november-democratic-debate/
- Debate 6: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/20/transcript-december-democratic-debate/
- Debate 7: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/01/14/democratic-debate-transcript-what-the-candidates-said-quotes/4460789002/
- Debate 8: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/new-hampshire-democratic-debate-transcript
- Debate 9: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/full-transcript-ninth-democratic-debate-las-vegas-n1139546
- Debate 10: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-carolina-democratic-debate-full-transcript-text/
- Debate 11: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/march-democratic-debate-transcript-joe-biden-bernie-sanders