John McCain

This speech titled 2008.08.29.remarks_introducing_governor_sarah_palin_as_the_2008_republican_vice_presidential_nominee_in_dayton_ohio originally had 985 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 27 cue terms and an average lag of 31.8. 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 21
0 0 1
0 0 0
2 good_peopl 80
0.00378 0 0.172
0 0 0.824
3 run_mate 116
0.000199 0 0.252
0 0 0.748
4 start_work 14
0 0 0.0354
0 0 0.965
5 good_peopl 22
0.000597 0 0.048
0 0 0.951
6 great_pride 83
0.0231 0 0.162
0.000597 0 0.814
7 special_interest 57
0.191 0 0.105
0.0203 0 0.684
8 foreign_oil 70
0.285 0 0.0448
0.19 0 0.48
9 class_famili 44
0.513 0 0.00756
0.452 0 0.0275
10 elementari_school 6
0.00995 0 0.0109
0.945 0.000199 0.0334
11 school_teacher 0
0 0 0.00199
0.953 0.000597 0.0442
12 work_hard 17
0.00478 0 0.0217
0.93 0.000398 0.0434
13 union_member 60
0.154 0 0.00955
0.822 0 0.0147
14 work_peopl 19
0.0742 0 0.000199
0.926 0 0
15 mortgag_payment 9
0.00318 0 0.00299
0.993 0.000597 0.000199
16 health_care 2
0.00219 0 0.000597
0.996 0.000398 0.00119
17 high_school 11
0.00179 0 0.00299
0.994 0 0.00159
18 citi_council 17
0.00179 0 0.0103
0.983 0 0.00438
19 council_member 0
0 0 0.000398
0.985 0 0.0147
20 women_suffrag 46
0.00876 0.000199 0.196
0.78 0 0.0149
21 good_sens 58
0.0137 0 0.774
0.0259 0 0.186
22 common_good 6
0.0143 0 0.0342
0.0304 0 0.921
23 oil_compani 49
0.239 0 0.0605
0.0352 0 0.665
24 fellow_american 63
0 0 0.67
0.000398 0 0.329
25 vice_presid 21
0 0 0.0519
0 0 0.948
26 unit_state 3
0 0 0.00896
0 0 0.991
27 sarah_palin 4
0 0 0.0115
0 0 0.988
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