A dataset containing 2,475 speeches given by U.S. presidential candidates. This is a subset of the Annenberg/Pew archive of presidential campaign discourse. Date were cleaned using code adapted from Diana Reddy: https://github.com/dsreddy80 Date were prepared on January 9th, 2021
data(corpus_presidential)A data frame with 2475 rows and 13 variables.
https://dss2.princeton.edu/data/95/
doc_id. Unique identifier for each email
year. Year the speech was delivered
month. Month the speech was delivered
day. Day of the month the speech was delivered
candidate. Last name of the presidential candidate
party. Political party of the candidate
state. State in which the speech was delivered
city. City in which the speech was delivered
length. Length of speech in N words
subjects. Subjects discussed as determined by original corpus compilers.
description. Brief description as determined by original corpus compilers.