John McCain

This speech titled 2008.11.04.address_in_phoenix_conceding_the_2008_presidential_election originally had 1436 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 29 cue terms and an average lag of 43.5. 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 american_peopl 37
0.0215 0 0.979
0 0 0
2 barack_obama 21
0.00179 0 0.0537
0.0155 0 0.929
3 american_presid 84
0.000597 0 0.193
0.000398 0 0.806
4 senat_obama 57
0.00836 0 0.124
0.000398 0 0.868
5 centuri_ago 50
0 0 0.12
0.000199 0 0.88
6 theodor_roosevelt 3
0 0 0.0113
0 0 0.989
7 white_hous 11
0 0 0.0255
0 0 0.975
8 america_todai 11
0 0 0.0217
0 0 0.978
9 unit_state 34
0 0 0.0718
0 0 0.928
10 senat_obama 36
0.000398 0 0.0806
0 0 0.919
11 great_thing 4
0 0 0.0127
0 0 0.987
12 good_man 51
0 0 0.111
0 0 0.889
13 senat_obama 4
0.000199 0 0.0121
0 0 0.988
14 difficult_time 23
0.000199 0.000199 0.0476
0 0 0.952
15 fellow_american 110
0.000398 0 0.231
0 0 0.769
16 year_ahead 278
0.000199 0 0.502
0 0 0.498
17 sarah_palin 16
0.000199 0 0.0396
0 0 0.96
18 presidenti_campaign 77
0 0 0.157
0 0 0.843
19 republican_parti 17
0 0 0.0356
0 0 0.964
20 rick_davi 14
0.00458 0.00159 0.0255
0 0 0.968
21 steve_schmidt 2
0.000995 0 0.00398
0.00458 0.00159 0.989
22 modern_time 32
0.00438 0 0.0736
0.00458 0.000995 0.916
23 make_mistak 51
0.000597 0 0.22
0.000796 0 0.778
24 american_peopl 53
0.00239 0 0.326
0 0 0.672
25 senat_obama 10
0.000597 0 0.0641
0.000199 0 0.935
26 joe_biden 6
0 0 0.0117
0 0 0.988
27 senat_obama 137
0.0344 0 0.264
0 0 0.702
28 god_bless 88
0.000199 0 0.215
0.000199 0 0.785
29 god_bless_america 4
0.00537 0 0.0131
0.000597 0 0.981
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