https://freerepublic.com/tag/juliesedivy/ en-us Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:55:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3795815/posts Here’s the deal: Presidential candidates issue plenty of pointed barbs in debates, but they use a lot of filler language, too. Phrases such as “let’s be clear” and “the end of the day,” buy the speaker time to collect themselves, think ahead and formulate an answer. Among the Democratic contenders, the fact is, Vice President Joe Biden utters them most frequently (and “the fact is” has been his most-used phrase). The Wall Street Journal identified 23 commonly used three-, four- and five-word phrases and their variations spoken by candidates during the four Democratic presidential debates and tracked the number of... Wall Street Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3795815/posts#comment Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:55:04 GMT