John McCain

This speech titled 2008.09.28.remarks_in_columbus_ohio originally had 1366 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 72 cue terms and an average lag of 16.5. 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 sarah_palin 7
0 0 1
0 0 0
2 joe_biden 54
0 0 0.121
0 0 0.879
3 good_man 4
0 0 0.0109
0 0 0.989
4 special_interest 50
0.551 0 0.0661
0.000597 0 0.383
5 big_oil 11
0.284 0 0.00816
0.546 0 0.162
6 wall_street 48
0.132 0 0.1
0.747 0 0.0205
7 financi_crisi 17
0.0237 0 0.00438
0.86 0 0.112
8 econom_secur 3
0.033 0 0
0.884 0 0.0828
9 small_busi 60
0.078 0 0.0199
0.837 0 0.0649
10 busi_owner 0
0.000398 0 0.000597
0.914 0 0.0852
11 great_countri 18
0.00856 0 0.491
0.418 0.000199 0.0818
12 wall_street 11
0.0567 0 0.243
0.389 0 0.312
13 teddi_roosevelt 52
0.00915 0 0.46
0.111 0 0.42
14 solv_problem 26
0.14 0 0.0706
0.114 0 0.676
15 american_peopl 3
0.0324 0 0.0127
0.253 0 0.702
16 senat_obama 9
0.136 0 0.0171
0.284 0 0.563
17 tax_dollar 60
0.584 0 0.00557
0.389 0 0.0215
18 senat_obama 10
0.0243 0 0.000796
0.961 0 0.0143
19 tax_dollar 6
0.0173 0 0
0.976 0 0.00677
20 senat_obama 1
0.00358 0 0
0.993 0 0.00378
21 __NUM___billion 5
0.00776 0 0
0.989 0 0.00318
22 billion_dollar 0
0.000597 0 0
0.996 0 0.00318
23 senat_obama 37
0.045 0 0.00139
0.953 0 0.000398
24 higher_tax 13
0.0159 0 0
0.984 0 0
25 tax_relief 3
0.00438 0 0
0.996 0 0
26 rais_tax 24
0.0277 0 0
0.972 0 0
27 peopl_make 2
0.00318 0 0
0.997 0 0
28 __NUM___dollar 2
0.00358 0 0
0.996 0 0
29 higher_tax 13
0.0171 0 0
0.983 0 0
30 middl_class 3
0.00498 0 0
0.995 0 0
31 nation_prioriti 5
0.00697 0 0.000796
0.985 0.00736 0
32 fridai_night 10
0.0105 0 0.0699
0.915 0.00299 0.00119
33 american_peopl 5
0.0191 0 0.00179
0.917 0 0.0621
34 senat_obama 25
0.0844 0 0.000995
0.907 0 0.00776
35 higher_tax 3
0.0139 0 0
0.986 0 0.000199
36 slow_growth 33
0.0362 0 0.0123
0.95 0.000995 0
37 american_peopl 33
0.0466 0 0.00259
0.944 0 0.00657
38 wall_street 9
0.0135 0 0.000199
0.98 0 0.00597
39 feder_govern 10
0.0167 0 0
0.981 0 0.00219
40 creat_job 8
0.0135 0 0
0.986 0 0
41 countri_back 4
0.00657 0 0.000597
0.993 0 0
42 __NUM___dai 21
0.00498 0 0.789
0.203 0 0.00299
43 great_countri 10
0.000597 0 0.161
0.0661 0 0.773
44 senat_obama 9
0.00517 0 0.0271
0.0615 0 0.906
45 pretti_clear 4
0.00119 0 0.0123
0.0641 0 0.922
46 tax_cut 12
0.931 0 0.000199
0.0685 0 0
47 hard_work 3
0.00537 0 0
0.995 0 0
48 work_famili 0
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0
49 strong_support 2
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0.000199 0
50 small_busi 2
0.00438 0 0
0.996 0 0
51 higher_tax 26
0.0364 0 0.00199
0.962 0 0
52 feder_govern 8
0.00756 0 0.086
0.904 0 0.00219
53 wall_street 34
0.0159 0 0.56
0.337 0 0.0876
54 barack_obama 29
0.00995 0 0.133
0.222 0 0.635
55 america_economi 15
0 0 0.276
0 0 0.724
56 great_depress 3
0 0 0.0125
0 0 0.987
57 wall_street 18
0.00836 0 0.00876
0 0 0.983
58 senat_obama 4
0.00796 0 0.256
0.00677 0 0.73
59 power_broker 24
0.00119 0 0.49
0.000398 0 0.508
60 statu_quo 2
0 0 0.0549
0.000199 0 0.945
61 sarah_palin 11
0.000199 0 0.168
0 0 0.832
62 special_interest 25
0.202 0 0.0503
0.00139 0 0.746
63 cut_tax 60
0.809 0 0.000995
0.188 0 0.00199
64 work_famili 5
0.00975 0 0
0.99 0 0
65 small_busi 3
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
66 hard_work 8
0.00915 0 0
0.991 0 0
67 work_peopl 0
0.00159 0 0
0.998 0 0
68 barack_obama 44
0.0486 0 0.0718
0.88 0 0
69 american_peopl 50
0.0635 0 0.0663
0.828 0 0.0426
70 parti_leadership 15
0.0352 0 0.0139
0.866 0 0.0846
71 special_interest 40
0.041 0 0.234
0.647 0 0.0786
72 wall_street 7
0.0101 0 0.0183
0.671 0 0.3
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 36