John McCain

This speech titled 2008.10.31.remarks_in_columbus_ohio originally had 1944 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 87 cue terms and an average lag of 18.8. 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 elect_presid 86
0.964 0 0.036
0 0 0
2 make_america 50
0.0864 0 0.000597
0.91 0 0.00259
3 creat_job 4
0.00657 0 0
0.993 0 0
4 work_famili 12
0.0125 0 0
0.987 0 0
5 capit_gain 5
0.00557 0 0
0.994 0 0
6 gain_tax 0
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
7 creat_job 9
0.0105 0 0
0.989 0 0
8 american_busi 4
0.00577 0 0
0.994 0 0
9 rais_tax 3
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
10 creat_job 10
0.0107 0 0
0.989 0 0
11 elect_presid 13
0.0149 0 0.000199
0.985 0 0
12 trillion_dollar 7
0.00995 0 0
0.99 0 0
13 senat_obama 5
0.00577 0 0.000597
0.994 0 0
14 govern_spend 33
0.0418 0 0
0.958 0 0
15 social_secur 14
0.0197 0 0
0.98 0 0
16 health_care 2
0.00458 0 0
0.995 0.000199 0
17 govern_program 6
0.00756 0 0
0.992 0 0
18 american_peopl 12
0.0141 0 0.000398
0.985 0 0
19 congress_pass 10
0.0125 0 0
0.987 0 0
20 __NUM___billion 6
0.00677 0 0
0.993 0 0
21 billion_dollar 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
22 wall_street 8
0.0113 0 0
0.989 0 0
23 senat_obama 10
0.0121 0 0.000398
0.987 0 0
24 work_peopl 12
0.0147 0 0
0.985 0 0
25 wall_street 8
0.00697 0 0.00398
0.989 0 0
26 hous_market 10
0.0121 0 0.00139
0.983 0 0.00358
27 american_dream 33
0.0436 0 0.000398
0.954 0 0.00199
28 elect_presid 9
0.0161 0 0
0.984 0 0
29 __NUM___billion 7
0.0121 0 0
0.988 0 0
30 billion_dollar 0
0.00119 0 0.000199
0.999 0 0
31 senat_obama 12
0.0139 0 0.00378
0.982 0 0.000199
32 nuclear_power 48
0.0589 0 0.00756
0.932 0 0.00199
33 clean_coal 18
0.0229 0 0
0.968 0 0.00876
34 senat_obama 24
0.0326 0 0.00557
0.959 0 0.00299
35 obama_campaign 83
0.103 0 0.00159
0.895 0 0
36 small_busi 7
0.0125 0 0
0.987 0 0
37 creat_job 3
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
38 small_busi 11
0.0135 0 0
0.986 0 0
39 senat_obama 32
0.0316 0 0.00577
0.963 0 0
40 peopl_make 54
0.0732 0 0
0.927 0 0.000199
41 __NUM___dollar 3
0.00478 0 0
0.995 0 0
42 tax_relief 35
0.0424 0 0
0.958 0 0
43 middl_class 6
0.00597 0 0
0.994 0 0
44 class_peopl 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
45 peopl_make 2
0.00418 0 0
0.996 0 0
46 __NUM___dollar 2
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
47 senat_obama 31
0.04 0 0
0.96 0 0
48 vote___NUM__ 1
0.00179 0 0
0.998 0 0
49 __NUM___time 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
50 tax_increas 2
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
51 tax_cut 3
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
52 senat_obama 10
0.0139 0 0.000199
0.986 0 0
53 __NUM___dollar 11
0.0133 0 0
0.987 0 0
54 tax_increas 6
0.00856 0 0
0.991 0 0
55 higher_tax 18
0.0191 0 0
0.981 0 0
56 econom_term 14
0.0179 0 0.000398
0.98 0.00179 0
57 moral_term 4
0.00736 0 0
0.991 0.00159 0.000199
58 higher_tax 7
0.0269 0 0
0.973 0 0.000199
59 cut_tax 43
0.0452 0 0
0.955 0 0
60 creat_job 2
0.00179 0 0
0.998 0 0
61 speaker_pelosi 3
0.00498 0 0
0.995 0 0
62 harri_reid 2
0.00378 0 0.000199
0.996 0 0
63 barnei_frank 2
0.00318 0 0
0.997 0 0
64 democrat_congress 4
0.00557 0 0.000796
0.994 0 0
65 social_secur 57
0.0734 0 0
0.927 0 0
66 retir_save 24
0.0295 0 0
0.971 0 0
67 tax_increas 5
0.00637 0 0
0.994 0 0
68 higher_tax 18
0.0215 0 0
0.979 0 0
69 econom_polici 33
0.0422 0 0.000199
0.958 0 0
70 govern_spend 5
0.00677 0 0
0.993 0 0
71 spend_program 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
72 higher_tax 4
0.00796 0 0
0.992 0 0
73 senat_obama 7
0.00975 0 0.0456
0.944 0 0.000199
74 presid_bush 7
0.0111 0 0.0505
0.893 0 0.0452
75 econom_polici 2
0.00418 0 0.00677
0.894 0 0.0955
76 senat_obama 76
0.0275 0 0.61
0.275 0 0.0874
77 person_experi 34
0.000199 0 0.345
0.00577 0 0.649
78 nuclear_war 37
0.000199 0 0.0808
0.000398 0 0.919
79 senat_obama 15
0.0728 0 0.0364
0.000796 0 0.89
80 __NUM___dai 139
0.603 0 0.103
0.0589 0 0.235
81 speaker_pelosi 22
0.355 0 0
0.645 0 0.000199
82 increas_spend 12
0.0135 0 0
0.986 0 0
83 senat_obama 51
0.0521 0 0.0802
0.868 0 0
84 great_idea 27
0.0273 0 0.0569
0.845 0 0.0712
85 great_countri 16
0.00199 0 0.766
0.109 0 0.124
86 world_economi 22
0.00438 0 0.078
0.0722 0 0.845
87 free_peopl 156
0.000199 0.000398 0.36
0.000796 0 0.639
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 69