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This speech titled 2008.09.13.senator_mccains_weekly_radio_address originally had 852 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 38 cue terms and an average lag of 19.9. 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
✓
0.000398 0 1
✗
0 0 0
2 campaign_trail 13
✓
0.00199 0 0.0291
✗
0 0 0.969
3 sarah_palin 59
✓
0 0 0.122
✗
0 0 0.878
4 run_mate 12
✓
0 0 0.0277
✗
0 0 0.972
5 sarah_palin 8
✓
0 0 0.0189
✗
0 0 0.981
6 chief_execut 3
✓
0.0191 0 0.0113
✗
0.000597 0 0.969
7 special_interest 9
✓
0.258 0 0.0177
✗
0.0217 0 0.703
8 big_oil 15
✓
0.649 0 0.00159
✗
0.278 0 0.071
9 oil_compani 0
✓
0.00557 0 0
✗
0.927 0 0.0673
10 tax_cut 6
✓
0.0752 0 0
✗
0.925 0 0
11 billion_dollar 6
✓
0.00856 0 0
✗
0.991 0 0
12 govern_back 7
✓
0.0101 0 0
✗
0.99 0 0
13 senat_obama 119
✓
0.138 0 0.0521
✗
0.81 0 0
14 parti_leadership 32
✓
0.0442 0 0.0211
✗
0.897 0 0.038
15 senat_obama 21
✓
0.042 0 0.00478
✗
0.916 0 0.037
16 trillion_dollar 66
✓
0.115 0 0.000597
✗
0.883 0 0.00199
17 tax_burden 7
✓
0.00935 0 0.00318
✗
0.986 0.000199 0.00139
18 great_challeng 38
✓
0.00557 0.000199 0.861
✗
0.128 0.00159 0.00398
19 energi_independ 2
✓
0.000597 0 0.0107
✗
0.128 0.000796 0.86
20 health_care_reform 2
✓
0.000199 0 0.0374
✗
0.103 0.00159 0.857
21 educ_reform 6
✓
0.00239 0 0.0263
✗
0.103 0.00159 0.867
22 senat_obama 29
✓
0.00657 0 0.222
✗
0.0318 0 0.74
23 democrat_control 11
✓
0.000199 0 0.0416
✗
0.0263 0 0.932
24 fellow_american 34
✓
0 0 0.132
✗
0.000199 0 0.868
25 white_hous 14
✓
0.000995 0.000199 0.0356
✗
0.000199 0 0.963
26 spend_bill 17
✓
0.982 0.000995 0.00119
✗
0.00577 0.000199 0.00975
27 care_reform 48
✓
0.0704 0 0
✗
0.929 0.000199 0.000199
28 tax_credit 10
✓
0.0129 0 0
✗
0.987 0 0
29 health_care 9
✓
0.00697 0 0
✗
0.991 0.00159 0
30 public_school 8
✓
0.00597 0 0
✗
0.992 0.00219 0
31 union_boss 15
✓
0.0171 0 0.000597
✗
0.98 0.00199 0
32 american_famili 28
✓
0.797 0 0.00119
✗
0.202 0 0
33 tax_relief 2
✓
0.0265 0 0
✗
0.973 0 0.000199
34 feder_budget 4
✓
0.00418 0 0.00199
✗
0.994 0 0
35 sarah_palin 23
✓
0.000199 0 0.982
✗
0.0125 0 0.00478
36 american_economi 59
✓
0.0356 0 0.128
✗
0.00935 0 0.827
37 parti_affili 6
✓
0 0 0.0513
✗
0.0205 0 0.928
38 real_reform 22
✓
0.0171 0 0.0484
✗
0.0195 0 0.915
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 6