John McCain

This speech titled 2008.08.18.remarks_to_the_veterans_of_foreign_wars_convention_in_orlando_florida originally had 3675 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 87 cue terms and an average lag of 38.7. 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 execut_director 40
0.0575 0.000398 0.942
0 0 0
2 good_friend 59
0 0 0.222
0 0 0.778
3 marin_corp 2
0 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
4 unit_state 40
0 0 0.00478
0 0 0.995
5 marin_corp 1
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
6 million_american 27
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
7 world_war 5
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
8 west_virginia 19
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
9 middl_east 57
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
10 brought_home 45
0.000995 0 0.0133
0 0 0.986
11 heavi_burden 53
0.00119 0 0.367
0 0 0.631
12 pai_attent 42
0.000199 0 0.0545
0 0 0.945
13 back_home 5
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
14 great_deal 85
0 0 0.107
0 0 0.893
15 middl_east 39
0.000199 0 0.0426
0 0 0.957
16 senat_obama 26
0.0155 0 0.0649
0.000199 0 0.919
17 nation_interest 101
0.0111 0 0.121
0.00856 0 0.859
18 senat_obama 63
0.00716 0 0.281
0.00378 0 0.708
19 gener_petraeu 23
0 0 0.0607
0 0 0.939
20 senat_obama 37
0.00836 0 0.136
0 0 0.856
21 troop_home 55
0 0 0.123
0.000199 0 0.877
22 senat_obama 20
0.00199 0 0.0402
0 0 0.958
23 nation_secur 22
0 0 0.0422
0 0 0.958
24 ten_dai 22
0 0 0.0302
0 0 0.97
25 dai_ago 0
0.000199 0 0.000398
0 0 0.999
26 russian_govern 35
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
27 vladimir_putin 23
0 0 0.448
0 0 0.552
28 democrat_nation 8
0 0 0.0199
0 0 0.98
29 soviet_empir 7
0 0 0.0185
0 0 0.981
30 energi_suppli 70
0 0 0.568
0 0 0.432
31 energi_product 34
0.0205 0 0.0247
0 0 0.955
32 high_price 2
0 0 0.000796
0.0203 0 0.979
33 energi_polici 26
0.00378 0 0.00716
0.0183 0 0.971
34 nation_secur 18
0.0117 0 0.0563
0.0205 0 0.911
35 energi_price 8
0.0219 0 0.0175
0.0318 0 0.929
36 foreign_war 94
0.116 0.00219 0.393
0.0336 0.000597 0.454
37 innoc_civilian 67
0.000597 0 0.596
0.00179 0.000398 0.401
38 free_world 61
0.00955 0 0.152
0.000398 0 0.838
39 elect_presid 8
0.00716 0 0.0392
0.00955 0 0.944
40 __NUM___nation 45
0.00119 0 0.117
0.00318 0 0.879
41 soviet_union 18
0 0 0.046
0 0 0.954
42 cold_war 2
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
43 soviet_empir 5
0.000398 0.000398 0.00537
0 0 0.994
44 free_world 41
0.00995 0.0115 0.048
0.000398 0.000398 0.93
45 free_nation 13
0.00458 0.198 0.00935
0 0.0225 0.766
46 larg_measur 5
0.00617 0.0768 0.00179
0.000398 0.225 0.689
47 unit_state 12
0.0378 0.0308 0.00179
0.00299 0.306 0.62
48 arm_forc 1
0.000199 0.0442 0.000398
0.00378 0.376 0.576
49 make_good 12
0.00119 0.0215 0.00299
0.00358 0.42 0.55
50 media_attent 122
0.0653 0.394 0.00657
0 0.443 0.0915
51 health_care 79
0.0261 0.076 0.000398
0.0111 0.886 0.000398
52 medic_care 96
0 0.00517 0
0 0.995 0
53 mental_health 2
0 0 0
0 1 0
54 health_care 0
0 0 0
0 1 0
55 mental_health 53
0 0 0
0 1 0
56 deni_access 18
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
57 health_care 78
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
58 bipartisan_support 66
0 0 0
0 1 0
59 nation_prioriti 22
0 0 0
0 1 0
60 public_monei 82
0 0.000398 0
0 1 0
61 public_good 4
0 0 0
0 1 0
62 oval_offic 7
0 0 0
0 1 0
63 spend_bill 9
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
64 servic_member 75
0 0 0
0 1 0
65 receiv_benefit 1
0 0 0
0 1 0
66 health_care_system 25
0 0 0
0 1 0
67 wide_rang 7
0 0 0
0 1 0
68 militari_servic 40
0 0 0
0 1 0
69 medic_record 75
0 0.000597 0
0 0.999 0
70 same_time 26
0 0 0
0 1 0
71 health_care 15
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
72 medic_care 69
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
73 wait_time 24
0 0 0
0 1 0
74 traumat_stress 68
0 0 0
0 1 0
75 arm_forc 45
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
76 greater_number 2
0 0 0
0 1 0
77 health_care 78
0 0 0.000597
0 0.999 0
78 obama_campaign 14
0 0 0
0 0.999 0.000597
79 vantag_point 70
0 0.00119 0
0 0.999 0
80 gi_bill 30
0 0 0
0 1 0
81 servic_member 21
0 0 0.00159
0 0.998 0
82 american_peopl 201
0.0629 0 0.936
0.00119 0.000199 0.000199
83 hard_thing 226
0 0 0.342
0 0 0.658
84 fair_share 15
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
85 good_fortun 98
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
86 defend_america 17
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
87 love_god 34
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
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