1. Home
  2. Results: Stage 2
  3. John McCain
  4. 2008 General
  5. 2008.07.27.interview_with_george_stephanopoulos_on_abc_news_this_week

John McCain

This speech titled 2008.07.27.interview_with_george_stephanopoulos_on_abc_news_this_week originally had 4835 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 120 cue terms and an average lag of 36.3. 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 senat_obama 2
✓
0.0265 0 0.974
✗
0 0 0
2 __NUM___month 20
✓
0 0 0.0699
✗
0 0 0.93
3 pretti_good 4
✓
0 0 0.0119
✗
0 0 0.988
4 sound_good 55
✓
0.0478 0.000199 0.142
✗
0 0 0.81
5 senat_obama 60
✓
0.00935 0 0.162
✗
0.0213 0 0.807
6 joint_chief 46
✓
0 0 0.123
✗
0.000199 0 0.876
7 gener_petraeu 8
✓
0 0 0.0143
✗
0 0 0.986
8 iraqi_govern 12
✓
0 0 0.00816
✗
0 0 0.992
9 senat_obama 19
✓
0.0458 0 0.332
✗
0 0 0.622
10 pretti_good 110
✓
0.000398 0 0.543
✗
0.000597 0 0.456
11 senat_obama 72
✓
0.0117 0 0.144
✗
0.000597 0 0.844
12 al_qaeda 77
✓
0.000199 0 0.152
✗
0 0 0.847
13 senat_obama 146
✓
0.0227 0 0.302
✗
0 0 0.675
14 gener_elect 57
✓
0.000199 0 0.124
✗
0.000597 0 0.876
15 sectarian_violenc 43
✓
0 0 0.076
✗
0 0 0.924
16 muslim_world 38
✓
0 0 0.00557
✗
0 0 0.994
17 al_qaeda 9
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
0 0 1
18 muslim_world 15
✓
0 0 0
✗
0 0 1
19 senat_obama 10
✓
0.000398 0 0.00179
✗
0 0 0.998
20 saddam_hussein 85
✓
0 0 0.00338
✗
0 0 0.997
21 unit_state 9
✓
0 0 0.00279
✗
0 0 0.997
22 __MONEY___billion 14
✓
0.00119 0 0.00159
✗
0 0 0.997
23 mass_destruct 23
✓
0 0 0.0191
✗
0 0 0.981
24 unit_state 32
✓
0.000597 0 0.398
✗
0 0 0.601
25 leav_iraq 22
✓
0 0 0.203
✗
0 0 0.797
26 young_american 18
✓
0.000398 0 0.34
✗
0 0 0.659
27 crucial_point 16
✓
0.00398 0 0.0412
✗
0.000199 0 0.955
28 senat_obama 54
✓
0.00378 0 0.178
✗
0.00119 0 0.817
29 polit_campaign 14
✓
0 0 0.0364
✗
0.000398 0 0.963
30 leav_iraq 149
✓
0 0 0.3
✗
0 0 0.7
31 joint_chief 35
✓
0 0 0.0806
✗
0 0 0.919
32 david_petraeu 5
✓
0 0 0.0131
✗
0 0 0.987
33 gener_petraeu 12
✓
0 0 0.0261
✗
0 0 0.974
34 __NUM___dai 11
✓
0 0 0.0293
✗
0 0 0.971
35 young_american 7
✓
0 0 0.0105
✗
0 0 0.989
36 american_live 0
✓
0 0 0.00219
✗
0 0 0.998
37 american_peopl 18
✓
0.00299 0 0.037
✗
0 0 0.96
38 al_qaeda 140
✓
0.000199 0 0.28
✗
0 0 0.72
39 senat_obama 34
✓
0.0241 0 0.0975
✗
0.000199 0 0.878
40 import_thing 154
✓
0.0223 0 0.311
✗
0.00498 0 0.661
41 fair_game 120
✓
0.00179 0 0.265
✗
0.00219 0 0.731
42 peopl_make 8
✓
0.0237 0 0.0189
✗
0.00338 0 0.954
43 presid_bush 27
✓
0.0243 0 0.0876
✗
0.0245 0 0.864
44 wall_street 25
✓
0.0193 0 0.911
✗
0.0213 0 0.0488
45 mortgag_crisi 107
✓
0 0 0.0985
✗
0 0 0.901
46 hous_crisi 10
✓
0.000199 0 0.00756
✗
0 0 0.992
47 energi_crisi 12
✓
0.000597 0 0.158
✗
0 0 0.842
48 __NUM___year 7
✓
0.000199 0 0.0949
✗
0 0 0.905
49 __MONEY___billion 4
✓
0.00239 0 0.0187
✗
0.000199 0 0.979
50 offshor_drill 48
✓
0.0203 0 0.386
✗
0.00119 0 0.592
51 move_forward 10
✓
0.000199 0 0.0103
✗
0.0143 0 0.975
52 nuclear_power 2
✓
0.000597 0 0.00119
✗
0.0149 0 0.983
53 hous_bill 9
✓
0.000597 0 0.588
✗
0.000995 0 0.41
54 special_interest 40
✓
0.00199 0 0.0326
✗
0.000597 0 0.965
55 hundr_thousand 108
✓
0.00199 0 0.0951
✗
0.000199 0 0.903
56 __MONEY___billion 44
✓
0 0 0.079
✗
0.000199 0 0.921
57 fanni_mae 2
✓
0 0 0.00119
✗
0 0 0.999
58 bear_stearn 10
✓
0 0 0.00239
✗
0 0 0.998
59 social_capit 7
✓
0.000199 0 0.00338
✗
0 0 0.996
60 privat_compani 10
✓
0 0 0.00398
✗
0 0 0.996
61 fanni_mae 106
✓
0 0 0.0418
✗
0 0 0.958
62 bear_stearn 2
✓
0 0 0.000995
✗
0 0 0.999
63 fanni_mae 132
✓
0.000597 0 0.0533
✗
0 0 0.946
64 tax_plan 72
✓
0.989 0 0.000995
✗
0.00517 0 0.00498
65 presid_bush 9
✓
0.0147 0 0.00637
✗
0.977 0 0.00199
66 tax_break 51
✓
0.0603 0 0.00935
✗
0.927 0 0.00338
67 tax_cut 50
✓
0.0613 0 0.00338
✗
0.924 0 0.0115
68 foreign_oil 32
✓
0.0141 0 0.665
✗
0.304 0 0.0165
69 nuclear_power 2
✓
0.00179 0 0.00418
✗
0.314 0 0.68
70 offshor_drill 2
✓
0.00139 0 0.000398
✗
0.314 0 0.685
71 __MONEY___billion 13
✓
0.00478 0 0.0738
✗
0.237 0 0.685
72 american_economi 5
✓
0.00199 0 0.0486
✗
0.192 0 0.758
73 __NUM___year 5
✓
0.000597 0 0.126
✗
0.0677 0 0.805
74 energi_crisi 12
✓
0.0482 0 0.00557
✗
0.0665 0 0.88
75 incom_american 7
✓
0.0462 0 0.00318
✗
0.114 0 0.836
76 oil_compani 98
✓
0.435 0 0.0553
✗
0.132 0 0.378
77 american_public 76
✓
0.262 0 0.192
✗
0.474 0.00139 0.071
78 public_opinion 0
✓
0.000597 0 0.00657
✗
0.729 0.00299 0.261
79 import_thing 43
✓
0.0903 0 0.427
✗
0.39 0 0.0927
80 joe_lieberman 60
✓
0.0619 0 0.127
✗
0.391 0 0.42
81 ted_kennedi 2
✓
0.000199 0 0.00458
✗
0.453 0 0.542
82 russ_feingold 2
✓
0.00139 0 0.00517
✗
0.453 0 0.54
83 unit_state 43
✓
0.474 0 0.00617
✗
0.455 0 0.0647
84 social_secur 3
✓
0.0685 0 0
✗
0.931 0 0.000398
85 privat_account 7
✓
0.00139 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
86 presid_bush 3
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
87 ronald_reagan 49
✓
0.000398 0 0
✗
1 0 0
88 tip_o'neil 2
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
89 wall_street_journal 27
✓
0.0137 0 0
✗
0.986 0 0
90 payrol_tax 64
✓
0.0113 0 0
✗
0.989 0 0
91 tax_increas 0
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
92 young_american 43
✓
0.000796 0 0.0183
✗
0.981 0 0
93 payrol_tax 32
✓
0.0187 0 0
✗
0.981 0 0.000199
94 tip_o'neil 24
✓
0.000597 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
95 ronald_reagan 2
✓
0.000398 0 0.0119
✗
0.988 0 0
96 __NUM___nation 32
✓
0.00338 0 0.806
✗
0.18 0 0.0109
97 cut_back 80
✓
0.00139 0 0.303
✗
0.0173 0 0.678
98 put_pressur 59
✓
0.000597 0 0.127
✗
0.00816 0 0.864
99 unit_nation 9
✓
0 0 0.0241
✗
0 0 0.976
100 nation_secur 0
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
0 0 1
101 secur_council 0
✓
0 0 0.000398
✗
0 0 1
102 nuclear_weapon 37
✓
0 0 0.0249
✗
0 0 0.975
103 prime_minist 80
✓
0.000398 0 0.151
✗
0 0 0.849
104 unit_state 136
✓
0.00299 0 0.815
✗
0 0 0.182
105 ronald_reagan 10
✓
0.00219 0 0.0525
✗
0.00199 0 0.943
106 york_time 96
✓
0 0 0.201
✗
0 0 0.799
107 unit_state 46
✓
0.000199 0 0.0832
✗
0 0 0.917
108 parent_famili 6
✓
0 0 0.0121
✗
0 0 0.988
109 unit_state 26
✓
0.000398 0 0.0255
✗
0 0 0.974
110 tradit_famili 80
✓
0 0 0.0139
✗
0 0 0.986
111 hundr_thousand 7
✓
0 0 0.000796
✗
0 0 0.999
112 gai_coupl 13
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
113 parent_famili 20
✓
0 0 0
✗
0 0 1
114 tradit_famili 3
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
0 0 1
115 parent_famili 21
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
0 0 1
116 job_creation 54
✓
0.758 0 0.177
✗
0 0 0.0655
117 affirm_action 36
✓
0.00597 0.000199 0.726
✗
0.101 0 0.166
118 unit_state 168
✓
0.000398 0 0.397
✗
0 0 0.602
119 difficult_time 5
✓
0 0 0.0119
✗
0 0 0.988
120 senat_mccain 21
✓
0 0 0.0456
✗
0 0 0.954
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 10