John McCain

This speech titled 2007.10.20.address_at_the_presidency_iv_forum_in_orlando_florida originally had 2884 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 83 cue terms and an average lag of 31.5. 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 presidenti_elect 41
0.00119 0.000199 0.999
0 0 0
2 make_clear 42
0.000398 0 0.0695
0.000995 0.000199 0.929
3 american_peopl 3
0.000199 0 0.0199
0 0 0.98
4 move_forward 19
0.000398 0 0.0384
0 0 0.961
5 american_peopl 68
0.0247 0 0.496
0.000597 0 0.479
6 import_thing 170
0.0145 0.000199 0.6
0.00279 0 0.382
7 elect_year 57
0.00199 0.000796 0.169
0.00418 0.000796 0.823
8 democrat_candid 151
0.00498 0 0.402
0.000597 0.000199 0.592
9 america_face 24
0 0 0.0754
0.000398 0.000398 0.924
10 washington_establish 179
0.000199 0 0.437
0 0 0.563
11 moral_issu 27
0 0 0.0736
0 0 0.926
12 american_peopl 43
0.000995 0 0.167
0 0 0.832
13 nation_secur 29
0.000597 0 0.124
0 0 0.876
14 import_issu 30
0.000995 0 0.0894
0.000796 0 0.909
15 health_care 57
0.00159 0.000199 0.155
0.000796 0 0.842
16 global_warm 2
0 0 0.0135
0.000796 0 0.986
17 govern_bureaucrat 16
0.000398 0 0.0531
0 0 0.946
18 free_market 5
0 0 0.0291
0 0 0.971
19 common_sens 3
0 0 0.0215
0 0 0.979
20 american_peopl 3
0.000398 0 0.165
0 0 0.834
21 health_care_system 23
0 0 0.299
0 0 0.701
22 __NUM___trillion 12
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
23 trillion_dollar 0
0 0 0
0 0 1
24 health_care 2
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
25 trillion_dollar 10
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
26 payrol_tax 19
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
27 trust_fund 10
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
28 social_secur 10
0.00358 0 0.000995
0 0 0.995
29 leav_offic 18
0.00219 0 0.00139
0.00358 0 0.993
30 health_care_system 30
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
31 health_care_cost 13
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
32 market_competit 5
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
33 american_econom 20
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
34 health_care 24
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
35 state_line 9
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
36 tort_reform 19
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
37 trial_lawyer 7
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
38 health_cost 3
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
39 market_competit 10
0 0.000199 0.000995
0 0 0.999
40 earn_monei 43
0.98 0.0115 0
0 0 0.00796
41 govern_spend 5
0.00498 0.000398 0
0.946 0.042 0.00637
42 ronald_reagan 7
0.00955 0 0.000199
0.931 0.0595 0
43 left_offic 1
0.00179 0 0
0.936 0.0619 0
44 govern_spend 2
0.00219 0 0.000597
0.935 0.0617 0.000199
45 defend_america 81
0.00378 0 0.921
0.0633 0.00836 0.00358
46 middl_east 63
0 0 0.878
0 0 0.122
47 american_soldier 38
0 0 0.0338
0 0 0.966
48 mass_destruct 11
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
49 innoc_peopl 5
0.000796 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
50 free_peopl 88
0.0613 0.00398 0.495
0.000796 0 0.439
51 decad_ago 65
0.874 0 0.0163
0.0663 0 0.0432
52 editori_board 63
0.0603 0 0
0.94 0 0
53 foreign_polici 14
0 0 0
1 0 0
54 soviet_union 15
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
55 america_secur 24
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
56 ronald_reagan 14
0 0 0
1 0 0
57 democrat_presid 13
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
58 soviet_union 5
0 0 0
1 0 0
59 evil_empir 3
0 0 0
1 0 0
60 berlin_wall 38
0.000597 0 0.000995
0.998 0 0
61 ronald_reagan 12
0 0 0.0273
0.972 0 0.000995
62 cold_war 46
0.000398 0 0.476
0.5 0.000199 0.0239
63 free_peopl 26
0 0.000199 0.475
0.0681 0.000199 0.457
64 ronald_reagan 34
0 0 0.124
0.0503 0 0.826
65 nation_secur 14
0 0 0.118
0.00159 0 0.881
66 lead_democrat 8
0 0 0.0237
0 0 0.976
67 democrat_presidenti 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
68 presidenti_candid 0
0 0 0
0 0 1
69 lead_democrat 16
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
70 democrat_presidenti 0
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
71 presidenti_candid 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
72 al_qaeda 50
0 0 0.0101
0 0 0.99
73 death_squad 2
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
74 middl_east 22
0 0 0.00478
0 0 0.995
75 iran_nuclear 3
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
76 world_todai 89
0.000199 0 0.905
0 0 0.0947
77 nuclear_war 40
0 0 0.121
0 0 0.879
78 terribl_thing 177
0 0 0.439
0 0 0.561
79 worst_thing 5
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
80 american_peopl 40
0.000995 0 0.0197
0 0 0.979
81 good_fortun 224
0 0 0.0501
0 0 0.95
82 defend_america 17
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
83 love_god 24
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
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