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Barack Obama

8th over the last seven days 9th over the last thirty days

Named in transcripts from 27 September 2026 to 5 October 2026. Closed list of public figures; the counts are transcribed sentences naming the person, never a private individual.

44sentences
30videos
6channels (top 12)
22sentences this month

By month, last 24 months

November 2024October 2026

Transcribed sentences naming the person, by month of publication. Recent months are incomplete while videos remain to be transcribed.

By channel orientation

Conservative right 9%Left 64%Culture 27%

This split follows the size of each orientation’s corpus. It says where the sentences come from, not which side names the person most.

The channels naming it most

  1. MeidasTouch15 sent.—
  2. Brian Tyler Cohen10 sent.—
  3. Breaking Points9 sent.—
  4. Ben Shapiro4 sent.—
  5. harryjsisson3 sent.—
  6. PowerfulJRE3 sent.—

The second column gives the sentences naming the person per thousand political sentences of the channel, an intensity measure independent of the channel’s size.

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