John McCain

This speech titled 2008.07.25.remarks_at_the_2008_american_gi_forum_of_the_united_states_national_convention_in_denver_colorado originally had 3049 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 83 cue terms and an average lag of 32.6. 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 eighteen_month 56
0.00199 0 0.998
0 0 0
2 month_ago 0
0 0 0.00657
0.000796 0 0.993
3 america_face 2
0 0 0.0121
0 0 0.988
4 al_qaeda 24
0 0 0.0219
0 0 0.978
5 osama_bin_laden 5
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
6 american_casualti 36
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
7 america_face 25
0 0 0.0921
0 0 0.908
8 leav_iraq 9
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
9 middl_east 7
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
10 senat_obama 30
0.000199 0 0.00756
0 0 0.992
11 counterinsurg_strategi 88
0 0 0.00776
0 0 0.992
12 focu_group 55
0.0151 0 0.22
0 0 0.765
13 senat_obama 58
0.000796 0 0.462
0.000796 0 0.537
14 obama_made 0
0 0 0.00239
0.00119 0 0.996
15 senat_obama 61
0.000995 0 0.0935
0 0 0.905
16 sectarian_violenc 8
0 0 0.00975
0 0 0.99
17 senat_obama 18
0.000597 0 0.0221
0 0 0.977
18 __NUM___senat 13
0.00199 0 0.0125
0.000597 0 0.985
19 senat_obama 46
0.00259 0 0.0346
0.00159 0 0.961
20 coalit_forc 79
0 0 0.0511
0 0 0.949
21 american_casualti 11
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
22 iraqi_civilian 7
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
23 civilian_death 0
0 0 0
0 0 1
24 senat_obama 10
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
25 american_forc 35
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
26 iraqi_armi 9
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
27 civilian_casualti 4
0 0 0
0 0 1
28 al_qaeda 5
0 0 0
0 0 1
29 safe_haven 32
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
30 civil_war 23
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
31 middl_east 69
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
32 american_militari 25
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
33 militari_command 0
0.00239 0 0
0 0 0.998
34 american_leader 3
0.0346 0 0.127
0.00239 0 0.836
35 senat_obama 14
0.152 0 0.0458
0.0366 0 0.766
36 obama_told 0
0.00279 0 0.000995
0.188 0 0.808
37 american_peopl 2
0.000597 0 0.0201
0.175 0 0.805
38 earli_dai 15
0.00358 0.000199 0.0414
0.143 0.000995 0.811
39 senat_obama 78
0.0605 0 0.365
0.0888 0 0.486
40 low_level 23
0.00975 0 0.0726
0.121 0 0.797
41 long_time 4
0.000398 0 0.0653
0.0718 0 0.862
42 senat_obama 2
0.000398 0 0.0109
0.0653 0 0.923
43 fals_claim 10
0.000199 0 0.0434
0.0338 0.000398 0.922
44 __NUM___week 19
0.000199 0 0.0462
0.00139 0 0.952
45 american_casualti 1
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
46 lowest_level 4
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
47 iraqi_armi 6
0 0 0
0 0 1
48 iraqi_govern 7
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
49 polit_progress 8
0 0 0
0 0 1
50 nation_largest 8
0.000398 0 0.00856
0 0 0.991
51 senat_obama 26
0.000398 0 0.00975
0.000398 0 0.989
52 iraqi_govern 73
0 0 0.00776
0 0 0.992
53 iraqi_peopl 10
0.000199 0 0.0593
0 0 0.94
54 polit_expedi 32
0.00338 0.000398 0.872
0 0 0.124
55 hardest_part 103
0.0283 0.00139 0.223
0.00139 0.000597 0.745
56 senat_obama 103
0.00915 0 0.29
0.00418 0 0.697
57 iraq_war 18
0 0 0.0555
0.000796 0 0.944
58 senat_obama 1
0.000796 0 0.00398
0.000796 0 0.994
59 send_troop 6
0.00279 0 0.0153
0.00159 0 0.98
60 stai_home 18
0.533 0 0.0173
0.00577 0 0.444
61 senat_obama 1
0.00736 0 0.00259
0.536 0.000199 0.454
62 medic_care 194
0.000796 0.586 0
0 0.413 0
63 mental_health 2
0 0 0
0 1 0
64 health_care 0
0 0 0
0 1 0
65 mental_health 42
0 0 0
0 1 0
66 deni_access 26
0 0 0
0 1 0
67 great_nation 118
0.00299 0.000398 0.269
0 0.728 0
68 adult_life 30
0 0.000199 0.124
0.000199 0.631 0.244
69 south_america 73
0.00139 0.000199 0.0991
0.000199 0.599 0.3
70 full_citizenship 83
0 0 0.66
0.000199 0.0249 0.315
71 fellow_american 35
0.00159 0 0.0818
0.000199 0.00199 0.914
72 privat_citizen 14
0.107 0 0.0237
0.00299 0 0.866
73 hispan_american 27
0.723 0 0.00458
0.109 0 0.163
74 ronald_reagan 108
0.00677 0 0.00876
0.831 0 0.153
75 north_vietnames 53
0.00378 0 0.00756
0.836 0 0.153
76 air_strike 169
0.00478 0 0.00955
0.834 0 0.152
77 north_vietnames 124
0.00338 0 0.0103
0.833 0 0.153
78 gunshot_wound 76
0.034 0.000199 0.315
0.548 0.000199 0.102
79 thirteen_year 16
0.000597 0.000199 0.429
0.222 0.000199 0.348
80 san_antonio 67
0.00239 0 0.303
0.0647 0.000199 0.63
81 ten_year_ago 2
0 0 0.0605
0.0171 0 0.922
82 god_bless 3
0 0 0.0231
0.000995 0 0.976
83 good_man 37
0.000199 0 0.0786
0.000398 0 0.921
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 53