John McCain

This speech titled 2008.03.26.remarks_to_the_los_angeles_world_affairs_council originally had 4256 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 139 cue terms and an average lag of 27.3. 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 pearl_harbor 41
0.00199 0.000199 0.998
0 0 0
2 task_forc 29
0 0 0.00498
0.000398 0 0.995
3 worst_thing 58
0.000597 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
4 innoc_peopl 38
0 0 0.00259
0.000199 0 0.997
5 strateg_interest 12
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
6 american_ideal 137
0.00159 0.000199 0.815
0 0 0.183
7 free_peopl 10
0 0 0.109
0 0.000199 0.89
8 free_market 2
0.000199 0 0.0223
0 0 0.978
9 innoc_life 70
0.00876 0.000199 0.106
0 0 0.885
10 harri_truman 97
0.000796 0 0.464
0.000199 0 0.535
11 cold_war 50
0 0 0.101
0.000398 0 0.899
12 human_exist 55
0.00398 0 0.0699
0 0 0.926
13 central_role 50
0 0 0.0669
0 0 0.933
14 unit_state 2
0 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
15 __NUM___centuri 16
0 0 0.0179
0 0 0.982
16 world_war_ii 20
0 0 0.0209
0 0 0.979
17 unit_state 19
0 0 0.0159
0 0 0.984
18 european_union 19
0 0 0.0117
0 0 0.988
19 great_nation 6
0 0 0.00915
0 0 0.991
20 south_korea 10
0.00498 0 0.0219
0 0 0.973
21 south_africa 2
0 0 0.000597
0.00478 0.000199 0.994
22 power_nation 20
0.00139 0 0.00896
0.00418 0 0.985
23 intern_system 11
0.00139 0 0.00677
0.00458 0 0.987
24 unit_state 19
0.000597 0 0.0935
0.00119 0 0.905
25 civil_societi 48
0 0 0.117
0 0 0.883
26 intern_institut 6
0 0 0.00478
0 0 0.995
27 todai_world 16
0 0 0.0265
0 0 0.974
28 great_nation 9
0 0 0.00677
0 0 0.993
29 democrat_nation 68
0 0 0.206
0 0 0.794
30 great_power 50
0 0 0.0822
0 0 0.918
31 same_time 121
0.000199 0.000398 0.546
0 0 0.453
32 global_warm 80
0 0 0.212
0 0 0.788
33 greenhous_ga_emiss 18
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
34 trade_system 33
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
35 environment_impact 5
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
36 decad_ago 39
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
37 john_kennedi 2
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
38 latin_america 5
0 0 0
0 0 1
39 american_civil 23
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
40 latin_america 16
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
41 america_todai 0
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
42 unit_state 9
0 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
43 latin_america 16
0.000398 0 0.00338
0 0 0.996
44 unit_state 7
0.000796 0 0.167
0.000199 0 0.832
45 south_american 38
0.000199 0 0.638
0 0 0.362
46 american_life 0
0 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
47 __NUM___centuri 19
0 0 0.0866
0 0 0.913
48 free_market 32
0 0 0.129
0 0 0.871
49 world_todai 11
0 0 0.0824
0 0 0.918
50 recent_decad 57
0.00239 0 0.123
0 0 0.874
51 peopl_live 13
0 0 0.0402
0 0 0.96
52 american_presid 27
0 0 0.0577
0 0 0.942
53 human_histori 19
0 0 0.045
0 0 0.955
54 unit_state 66
0.00119 0 0.131
0 0 0.868
55 polit_liber 44
0.00219 0 0.0901
0.000199 0 0.907
56 unit_state 19
0 0 0.0509
0.000199 0 0.949
57 cold_war 8
0 0 0.0169
0 0 0.983
58 european_union 41
0.000199 0 0.122
0 0 0.878
59 energi_polici 31
0.00139 0 0.0225
0 0 0.976
60 common_market 5
0 0 0.000995
0.00139 0 0.998
61 democraci_promot 32
0.00338 0 0.395
0 0 0.601
62 cyber_attack 45
0 0 0.208
0 0 0.792
63 western_nation 2
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
64 make_clear 2
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
65 black_sea 12
0.000597 0.000199 0.0157
0 0 0.983
66 african_nation 82
0.00498 0 0.0679
0.000398 0 0.927
67 world_poorest 56
0.00139 0 0.208
0.000597 0 0.79
68 great_power 27
0 0 0.0338
0 0 0.966
69 nuclear_weapon 8
0 0 0.00597
0 0 0.994
70 unit_state 2
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
71 intern_commun 3
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
72 north_korea 14
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
73 nuclear_weapon 1
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
74 weapon_program 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
75 nuclear_weapon 28
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
76 nuclear_arsen 6
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
77 forti_year 10
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
78 year_ago 0
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
79 nuclear_power 5
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
80 arm_race 15
0 0 0.0221
0 0 0.978
81 unit_state 26
0.000398 0 0.037
0 0 0.963
82 vital_interest 12
0.000199 0 0.00677
0.000199 0 0.993
83 radic_islam 68
0 0 0.263
0 0 0.737
84 islam_terror 0
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
85 todai_world 19
0 0 0.0175
0 0 0.982
86 foreign_polici 4
0 0 0.00498
0 0 0.995
87 nuclear_weapon 44
0 0 0.0259
0 0 0.974
88 mass_destruct 5
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
89 world_affair 18
0.000796 0 0.00955
0 0 0.99
90 white_hous 30
0 0 0.0802
0 0 0.92
91 american_peopl 27
0.000199 0 0.0171
0 0 0.983
92 fail_state 49
0 0 0.0197
0 0 0.98
93 al_qaeda 2
0 0 0
0 0 1
94 southeast_asia 14
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
95 central_asia 2
0 0 0
0 0 1
96 middl_east 7
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
97 militari_forc 10
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
98 law_enforc 20
0 0 0.00637
0 0 0.994
99 econom_opportun 5
0.000199 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
100 radic_islam 20
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
101 islam_extrem 0
0 0 0
0 0 1
102 vast_major 35
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
103 power_forc 53
0.000199 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
104 middl_east 66
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
105 royal_famili 36
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
106 saddam_hussein 10
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
107 radic_islam 16
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
108 muslim_world 12
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
109 islam_radic 17
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
110 radic_islamist 27
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
111 statu_quo 58
0 0 0.0151
0 0 0.985
112 free_peopl 63
0 0 0.0201
0 0 0.98
113 middl_east 46
0 0 0.00637
0 0 0.994
114 central_asia 2
0 0 0
0 0 1
115 southeast_asia 9
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
116 democrat_state 114
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
117 religi_toler 19
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
118 year_ago 23
0 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
119 civilian_death 25
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
120 coalit_forc 11
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
121 econom_life 24
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
122 roughli___NUM___percent 28
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
123 sectarian_violenc 27
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
124 polit_progress 3
0 0 0
0 0 1
125 nation_level 3
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
126 make_progress 29
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
127 move_closer 60
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
128 moral_respons 22
0 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
129 great_nation 19
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
130 iraqi_peopl 10
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
131 ethnic_cleans 9
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
132 same_time 34
0 0 0.00378
0 0 0.996
133 al_qaeda 24
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
134 civil_war 104
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
135 state_support 58
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
136 middl_east 26
0.000398 0 0.0223
0 0 0.977
137 democrat_candid 23
0.0925 0 0.696
0.000597 0 0.211
138 year_ago 47
0.0312 0 0.164
0.0689 0.000199 0.735
139 american_famili 31
0.278 0 0.081
0.0957 0 0.545
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 191