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This speech titled 2008.07.27.interview_with_wolf_blitzer_on_cnns_late_edition originally had 3929 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 113 cue terms and an average lag of 31.6. 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 republican_presidenti 8
✓
0 0 1
✗
0 0 0
2 presidenti_candid 0
✓
0 0 0.00179
✗
0 0 0.998
3 john_mccain 2
✓
0 0 0.00697
✗
0 0 0.993
4 senat_mccain 1
✓
0 0 0.00279
✗
0 0 0.997
5 elect_presid 20
✓
0.000995 0 0.0484
✗
0 0 0.951
6 unit_state 3
✓
0 0 0.00955
✗
0.000398 0 0.99
7 oval_offic 8
✓
0 0 0.0193
✗
0 0 0.981
8 nation_secur 14
✓
0.000995 0 0.0334
✗
0 0 0.966
9 secur_advis 0
✓
0 0 0.00259
✗
0.000995 0 0.996
10 peopl_call 134
✓
0.0641 0.000796 0.372
✗
0 0 0.563
11 domest_economi 6
✓
0.00836 0 0.0197
✗
0.0631 0.000796 0.908
12 control_spend 59
✓
0.156 0 0.367
✗
0.047 0 0.431
13 american_peopl 56
✓
0.00637 0 0.253
✗
0.04 0 0.7
14 approv_rate 37
✓
0 0 0.119
✗
0.00776 0 0.873
15 start_work 18
✓
0 0 0.0476
✗
0.00119 0 0.951
16 health_care 20
✓
0.0798 0.000199 0.0416
✗
0.00139 0 0.877
17 energi_independ 29
✓
0.0291 0 0.0732
✗
0.071 0 0.827
18 incom_american 16
✓
0.00697 0 0.00736
✗
0.0961 0 0.89
19 foreign_oil 34
✓
0.00239 0 0.135
✗
0.0364 0 0.827
20 nation_secur 23
✓
0.000199 0 0.545
✗
0.000398 0 0.454
21 secur_issu 0
✓
0 0 0.0123
✗
0.000398 0 0.987
22 unit_state 5
✓
0 0 0.124
✗
0 0 0.876
23 osama_bin_laden 8
✓
0.000199 0 0.162
✗
0 0 0.838
24 presid_bush 12
✓
0.000398 0 0.0285
✗
0.000199 0 0.971
25 win_war 63
✓
0 0 0.127
✗
0 0 0.873
26 osama_bin_laden 14
✓
0 0 0.0283
✗
0 0 0.972
27 good_thing 72
✓
0.00816 0 0.141
✗
0 0 0.85
28 unit_state 48
✓
0 0 0.0901
✗
0.000199 0 0.91
29 war_crime 5
✓
0 0 0.00836
✗
0 0 0.992
30 militari_commiss 4
✓
0 0 0.00438
✗
0 0 0.996
31 move_forward 36
✓
0 0 0.0139
✗
0 0 0.986
32 charl_krauthamm 41
✓
0.000796 0 0.00796
✗
0 0 0.991
33 prime_minist 12
✓
0 0 0.00338
✗
0 0 0.997
34 absente_ballot 25
✓
0 0 0.00498
✗
0 0 0.995
35 presidenti_elect 3
✓
0 0 0.000796
✗
0 0 0.999
36 prime_minist 14
✓
0 0 0.00736
✗
0 0 0.993
37 senat_obama 147
✓
0.0259 0 0.287
✗
0 0 0.687
38 year_ago 65
✓
0 0 0.0852
✗
0.000597 0 0.914
39 polit_issu 18
✓
0.000199 0 0.0201
✗
0 0 0.98
40 senat_obama 26
✓
0.00139 0 0.0304
✗
0 0 0.968
41 sectarian_violenc 35
✓
0 0 0.0285
✗
0 0 0.972
42 prime_minist 26
✓
0 0 0.0446
✗
0 0 0.955
43 gener_petraeu 19
✓
0 0 0.134
✗
0 0 0.866
44 senat_obama 13
✓
0.00438 0 0.335
✗
0 0 0.66
45 militari_offic 6
✓
0.000597 0 0.0609
✗
0.000796 0 0.938
46 __NUM___month 55
✓
0 0 0.122
✗
0 0 0.878
47 prime_minist 19
✓
0.000398 0 0.0436
✗
0 0 0.956
48 __NUM___month 103
✓
0 0 0.355
✗
0 0 0.645
49 pretti_good 4
✓
0 0 0.0167
✗
0 0 0.983
50 young_american 108
✓
0 0 0.211
✗
0 0 0.789
51 senat_obama 29
✓
0.00716 0 0.0693
✗
0 0 0.924
52 polit_campaign 72
✓
0 0 0.16
✗
0 0 0.84
53 rais_question 2
✓
0 0 0.00577
✗
0 0 0.994
54 time_magazin 13
✓
0.000597 0.000199 0.0306
✗
0 0 0.969
55 presidenti_campaign 8
✓
0 0 0.0277
✗
0 0.000199 0.972
56 major_parti 12
✓
0 0 0.0647
✗
0 0 0.935
57 parti_candid 0
✓
0 0 0.00279
✗
0 0 0.997
58 senat_obama 54
✓
0.00697 0 0.135
✗
0 0 0.858
59 young_american 37
✓
0 0 0.0963
✗
0 0 0.904
60 senat_obama 3
✓
0.000398 0 0.00896
✗
0 0 0.991
61 polit_issu 7
✓
0 0 0.0151
✗
0 0 0.985
62 earli___NUM__ 169
✓
0.000398 0 0.106
✗
0 0 0.894
63 saddam_hussein 35
✓
0 0 0.00358
✗
0 0 0.996
64 mass_destruct 33
✓
0 0 0.0454
✗
0 0 0.955
65 critic_time 19
✓
0.00378 0 0.822
✗
0 0 0.175
66 senat_obama 16
✓
0.0107 0 0.0892
✗
0.00338 0 0.897
67 american_peopl 70
✓
0 0 0.196
✗
0 0 0.804
68 peopl_todai 0
✓
0 0 0.00259
✗
0 0 0.997
69 senat_mccain 8
✓
0 0 0.032
✗
0 0 0.968
70 town_hall_meet 18
✓
0 0 0.0436
✗
0 0 0.956
71 polit_process 138
✓
0.00119 0.000199 0.303
✗
0 0 0.695
72 move_forward 2
✓
0 0 0.00796
✗
0.000398 0.000199 0.991
✗
0 0.000199 0.957
74 iraqi_peopl 17
✓
0 0 0.0145
✗
0 0 0.985
75 saddam_hussein 20
✓
0.000398 0 0.00418
✗
0 0 0.995
76 singl_dai 109
✓
0 0 0.562
✗
0 0 0.438
77 iran_nuclear 74
✓
0.00139 0 0.0911
✗
0 0 0.907
78 unit_state 37
✓
0.000796 0 0.0637
✗
0 0 0.936
79 tel_aviv 44
✓
0.000199 0 0.0673
✗
0 0 0.933
80 state_depart 33
✓
0.000796 0 0.0269
✗
0 0 0.972
81 senat_mccain 62
✓
0.000398 0 0.779
✗
0 0 0.22
82 bush_doctrin 14
✓
0.0639 0 0.0304
✗
0.00119 0 0.904
83 tough_question 32
✓
0.0442 0 0.077
✗
0.0595 0 0.819
84 terrorist_organ 39
✓
0.0223 0 0.0894
✗
0.0788 0 0.81
85 unit_state 65
✓
0.00975 0 0.256
✗
0.0382 0.000199 0.696
86 american_live 14
✓
0.00358 0 0.0492
✗
0.0462 0 0.901
87 unit_state 108
✓
0.341 0 0.144
✗
0.0494 0 0.466
88 suprem_court 1
✓
0.00776 0 0.00239
✗
0.391 0 0.599
89 unit_state 9
✓
0.17 0 0.00975
✗
0.399 0 0.421
90 illeg_immigr 20
✓
0.398 0 0.00219
✗
0.57 0 0.03
91 unit_state 3
✓
0.000597 0 0.000199
✗
0.968 0 0.0314
92 state_senat 23
✓
0.00915 0 0.00119
✗
0.968 0 0.0215
93 comprehens_immigr 2
✓
0.0227 0 0
✗
0.977 0 0
94 immigr_reform 0
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
95 temporari_worker 8
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
96 worker_program 0
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
97 border_secur 29
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
98 temporari_worker 13
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
99 worker_program 0
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
100 learn_english 35
✓
0.0492 0 0.0175
✗
0.933 0 0
101 high_price 32
✓
0.346 0.000199 0.296
✗
0.343 0 0.0147
102 fundament_problem 62
✓
0.4 0 0.033
✗
0.426 0 0.141
103 oil_compani 29
✓
0.0613 0 0.0115
✗
0.782 0 0.145
104 nuclear_power 66
✓
0.0756 0 0.0237
✗
0.757 0 0.143
105 senat_obama 5
✓
0.00617 0 0.202
✗
0.692 0 0.0997
106 affirm_action 21
✓
0.00299 0 0.663
✗
0.101 0 0.233
107 good_idea 15
✓
0.00418 0 0.0571
✗
0.0754 0 0.863
108 vice_presid 26
✓
0.000199 0 0.147
✗
0.00418 0.000199 0.848
109 free_countri 167
✓
0.00896 0 0.327
✗
0.00139 0 0.662
110 senat_mccain 5
✓
0 0 0.0269
✗
0 0 0.973
111 slipperi_slope 54
✓
0.00199 0 0.105
✗
0 0 0.893
112 good_luck 60
✓
0.00478 0 0.122
✗
0.00119 0 0.872
113 campaign_trail 5
✓
0.00517 0 0.0133
✗
0.00597 0 0.976
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