John McCain

This speech titled 2007.07.18.remarks_on_the_senate_floor_about_the_levinreed_amendment_to_the_national_defense_authorization_act_of_fy_2008 originally had 1659 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 19 cue terms and an average lag of 77.8. You can see the original speech or the tokenized/stemmed speech with overlaying cue-lags.


Cue-lag representation

The table below shows the cue-lag representation of the speech. For each cue term, it also displays the posterior distributions over ideology.

# Cue term Lag before term Posterior distribution
Restart ∑Left Center ∑Right
1 press_corp 26
0.0165 0.00557 0.978
0 0 0
2 polit_activist 5
0.00139 0 0.0113
0.0155 0.00637 0.965
3 american_soldier 263
0 0 0.208
0 0.000199 0.792
4 arm_forc 29
0 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
5 middl_east 49
0 0 0.0115
0 0 0.988
6 vital_interest 20
0 0 0.00378
0 0 0.996
7 gener_petraeu 121
0 0 0.0297
0 0 0.97
8 counterinsurg_strategi 10
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
9 iraqi_militari 97
0 0 0.0259
0 0 0.974
10 fail_miser 20
0.000995 0 0.0167
0 0 0.982
11 unit_state 39
0.000398 0 0.0289
0.000398 0 0.97
12 middl_east 89
0 0 0.0374
0 0 0.963
13 american_peopl 9
0.00259 0 0.0442
0 0 0.953
14 militari_leader 176
0.000199 0.000796 0.26
0 0 0.739
15 adult_life 86
0 0.000398 0.164
0 0.000199 0.835
16 american_peopl 106
0.00995 0 0.347
0 0 0.643
17 gener_petraeu 124
0 0 0.269
0 0 0.731
18 american_peopl 186
0.0173 0 0.616
0 0 0.367
19 public_servant 97
0.00119 0 0.311
0.000995 0.000199 0.687
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