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John McCain

This speech titled 2007.08.20.address_to_the_108th_national_convention_of_the_veterans_of_foreign_wars_in_kansas_city_missouri originally had 3064 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 37 cue terms and an average lag of 73.1. 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 america_secur 211
✓
0.00915 0.0145 0.976
✗
0 0 0
2 thirti_year 70
✓
0.038 0.000597 0.172
✗
0.00697 0.00915 0.774
3 import_thing 317
✓
0.0462 0.000597 0.762
✗
0.0143 0.000597 0.176
4 book_publish 47
✓
0.00896 0.00617 0.126
✗
0.0229 0.0265 0.809
5 import_decis 15
✓
0.00358 0.00358 0.0302
✗
0.0285 0.0348 0.899
6 command_offic 106
✓
0.00697 0.00199 0.154
✗
0.0193 0.0358 0.782
7 civil_war 11
✓
0.00776 0.000597 0.0205
✗
0.0247 0.0382 0.908
8 african_american 4
✓
0.00896 0.00398 0.00776
✗
0.0322 0.039 0.908
9 human_experi 215
✓
0.00617 0.037 0.219
✗
0.0101 0.0396 0.688
10 georg_washington 563
✓
0.00358 0.871 0.0496
✗
0 0.0754 0.000796
11 abraham_lincoln 2
✓
0 0.000796 0
✗
0 0.95 0.0496
12 nation_prioriti 19
✓
0.00736 0.00378 0.00179
✗
0.00239 0.946 0.0384
13 world_todai 19
✓
0.000199 0 0.942
✗
0.00139 0.0183 0.0384
14 nuclear_war 40
✓
0 0.000199 0.124
✗
0 0.000597 0.875
15 long_war 127
✓
0 0 0.266
✗
0 0 0.734
16 american_soldier 75
✓
0 0 0.0171
✗
0 0 0.983
17 arm_forc 28
✓
0 0 0.00537
✗
0 0 0.995
18 american_peopl 20
✓
0 0 0.0161
✗
0 0 0.984
19 militari_command 32
✓
0 0 0.00657
✗
0 0 0.993
20 adult_life 61
✓
0.000199 0 0.0185
✗
0 0 0.981
21 counterinsurg_strategi 13
✓
0 0 0.00318
✗
0 0 0.997
22 gener_petraeu 48
✓
0 0 0.0125
✗
0 0 0.987
23 middl_east 29
✓
0 0 0.00637
✗
0 0 0.994
24 american_peopl 9
✓
0 0 0.00617
✗
0 0 0.994
25 al_qaeda 7
✓
0 0 0.00179
✗
0 0 0.998
26 middl_east 10
✓
0 0 0.00239
✗
0 0 0.998
27 civil_war 6
✓
0 0.000199 0.00438
✗
0 0 0.995
28 fellow_american 159
✓
0 0 0.995
✗
0 0 0.00537
29 american_peopl 22
✓
0.000796 0 0.044
✗
0 0 0.955
30 terribl_thing 165
✓
0 0 0.18
✗
0 0 0.82
31 worst_thing 5
✓
0 0 0.00119
✗
0 0 0.999
32 american_peopl 40
✓
0.000398 0 0.0151
✗
0 0 0.984
33 hard_thing 215
✓
0 0 0.0432
✗
0 0 0.957
34 fair_share 15
✓
0 0 0.00159
✗
0 0 0.998
35 good_fortun 101
✓
0 0 0.0153
✗
0 0 0.985
36 defend_america 17
✓
0 0 0.00219
✗
0 0 0.998
37 love_god 34
✓
0 0 0.00517
✗
0 0 0.995
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 9