John McCain

This speech titled 2008.08.09.senator_mccains_weekly_radio_address originally had 773 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 31 cue terms and an average lag of 21.0. 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 john_mccain 4
0 0 1
0 0 0
2 democrat_nation 7
0 0 0.0159
0 0 0.984
3 nation_convent 0
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
4 year_ago 11
0 0 0.0625
0 0 0.938
5 state_senat 16
0 0 0.0671
0 0 0.933
6 barack_obama 2
0.000199 0 0.00736
0 0 0.992
7 run_mate 71
0.000199 0 0.144
0 0 0.855
8 senat_obama 2
0.00119 0 0.00478
0.000199 0 0.994
9 obama_campaign 31
0.00716 0 0.0768
0.00139 0 0.915
10 senat_obama 61
0.00259 0 0.132
0.00219 0 0.864
11 energi_suppli 22
0.000199 0 0.0478
0.000199 0 0.952
12 interest_group 21
0.0101 0 0.0245
0.000398 0 0.965
13 senat_obama 13
0.0565 0 0.0151
0.0105 0 0.918
14 nation_energi 30
0.0812 0 0.0165
0.0653 0 0.837
15 senat_obama 29
0.0565 0 0.0141
0.14 0 0.789
16 offshor_drill 3
0.00219 0 0.000398
0.196 0 0.802
17 obama_campaign 6
0.00438 0 0.0213
0.191 0 0.783
18 energi_product 22
0.00577 0 0.0101
0.182 0 0.802
19 offshor_drill 43
0.00915 0 0.00697
0.174 0 0.81
20 senat_obama 3
0.000597 0 0.00478
0.179 0 0.816
21 energi_polici 84
0.0139 0 0.0695
0.1 0 0.816
22 energi_bill 9
0.00159 0 0.00119
0.112 0 0.885
23 senat_obama 13
0.00199 0 0.00657
0.109 0 0.882
24 nuclear_power_plant 61
0.00915 0 0.0101
0.0969 0 0.884
25 clean_coal 10
0.00139 0 0.00219
0.103 0 0.893
26 creat_job 7
0.00299 0 0.000398
0.101 0 0.895
27 renew_energi 9
0.00159 0 0.00537
0.0979 0 0.895
28 energi_sourc 0
0 0 0
0.0995 0 0.9
29 long_term 12
0.00199 0 0.00318
0.0949 0 0.9
30 gasolin_tax 8
0.00398 0 0.00259
0.0933 0.000796 0.899
31 energi_independ 36
0.0143 0 0.0181
0.083 0.000199 0.884
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 56