John McCain

This speech titled 2008.08.23.senator_mccains_weekly_radio_address originally had 786 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 33 cue terms and an average lag of 20.0. 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 5
0 0 1
0 0 0
2 presidenti_campaign 14
0 0 0.032
0 0 0.968
3 run_mate 12
0 0 0.0267
0 0 0.973
4 senat_obama 30
0.00199 0 0.0718
0 0 0.926
5 rick_warren 35
0 0 0.072
0 0 0.928
6 senat_obama 28
0.0207 0 0.0641
0 0 0.915
7 unit_state 34
0.0187 0 0.0764
0.0177 0 0.887
8 offshor_drill 100
0.566 0 0.077
0.0318 0 0.325
9 senat_obama 2
0.00279 0 0.152
0.511 0 0.333
10 obama_speech 0
0.000398 0 0.0326
0.486 0.000597 0.48
11 senat_obama 59
0.0557 0 0.123
0.443 0 0.378
12 rick_warren 19
0.00915 0 0.0362
0.482 0.000199 0.473
13 middl_ground 23
0.389 0 0.0368
0.491 0 0.0832
14 abort_issu 3
0.0501 0 0.00279
0.882 0.000199 0.0647
15 taxpay_fund 12
0.031 0 0.000995
0.933 0 0.0354
16 pass_legisl 11
0.00179 0 0.000199
0.964 0 0.0344
17 birth_abort 9
0.00557 0 0.000398
0.966 0 0.0285
18 senat_obama 1
0.000995 0 0.000199
0.971 0 0.0277
19 senat_floor 17
0.00299 0 0.00358
0.972 0 0.0211
20 __NUM___congress 2
0 0 0.000398
0.975 0 0.0243
21 feder_law 4
0.000199 0.000199 0.00358
0.974 0.00119 0.0209
22 medic_care 3
0.00199 0 0.00279
0.971 0.00159 0.0231
23 senat_obama 12
0.0605 0 0.00318
0.924 0 0.0123
24 protect_act 16
0.0352 0 0
0.959 0 0.00617
25 barack_obama 11
0.00338 0 0.000796
0.99 0 0.00597
26 protect_act 36
0.00736 0 0.000199
0.987 0 0.00577
27 senat_obama 15
0.298 0.000199 0.0426
0.658 0 0.00199
28 obama_campaign 32
0.29 0.000398 0.0179
0.67 0.00159 0.0207
29 senat_obama 21
0.048 0 0.00199
0.933 0.00239 0.0151
30 great_challeng 9
0.00139 0.0145 0.000597
0.228 0.745 0.0103
31 birth_abort 13
0.00179 0.0109 0
0.193 0.794 0.000398
32 medic_care 6
0 0.00119 0
0.19 0.809 0
33 moral_ideal 53
0.00378 0.000398 0.0111
0.183 0.801 0
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 73