John McCain

This speech titled 2008.09.29.remarks_in_west_des_moines_iowa originally had 465 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 14 cue terms and an average lag of 27.9. 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 nation_economi 11
0.576 0 0.424
0 0 0
2 american_worker 15
0.23 0 0.0609
0.567 0 0.142
3 small_busi 2
0.00438 0 0.00896
0.786 0 0.201
4 busi_owner 0
0.000796 0 0.0105
0.778 0 0.211
5 american_feel 18
0.00498 0 0.59
0.183 0.000199 0.222
6 wall_street 7
0.0167 0 0.0181
0.184 0 0.781
7 work_hard 129
0.0965 0 0.725
0.0766 0 0.101
8 vital_import 96
0.371 0 0.148
0.144 0 0.337
9 small_busi 4
0.361 0 0.0227
0.494 0 0.123
10 work_american 4
0.00856 0 0.000398
0.85 0 0.141
11 congression_leader 33
0.0356 0 0.0273
0.8 0.000199 0.137
12 draw_board 15
0.0167 0 0.0599
0.762 0.00239 0.159
13 senat_obama 33
0.0398 0 0.128
0.66 0 0.173
14 american_peopl 56
0.042 0 0.21
0.493 0 0.255
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