John McCain

This speech titled 2008.07.09.remarks_at_a_town_hall_meeting_in_portsmouth_ohio originally had 1906 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 87 cue terms and an average lag of 18.6. 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 american_economi 26
0.976 0 0.0241
0 0 0
2 __NUM___peopl 16
0.034 0 0.000796
0.954 0 0.0109
3 job_creation 13
0.0251 0 0
0.972 0 0.00259
4 good_job 29
0.032 0 0.000995
0.965 0 0.00159
5 energi_secur 69
0.0842 0 0.00139
0.913 0 0.00119
6 hard_work 26
0.0279 0 0
0.972 0 0.000199
7 american_peopl 3
0.00358 0 0.000398
0.996 0 0
8 creat_job 7
0.0101 0 0
0.99 0 0.000199
9 small_busi 38
0.0416 0 0.00398
0.954 0 0
10 good_job 20
0.0223 0 0.0213
0.953 0 0.00378
11 american_peopl 11
0.0105 0 0.0535
0.91 0 0.0257
12 good_job 39
0.0412 0 0.0629
0.824 0 0.0718
13 job_american 0
0.00179 0 0.00418
0.859 0 0.135
14 energi_independ 12
0.00279 0 0.702
0.153 0 0.142
15 foreign_oil 5
0.000597 0 0.0695
0.0876 0 0.842
16 thirti_year 3
0.000398 0 0.00358
0.0842 0 0.912
17 long_term 17
0.00358 0 0.00179
0.081 0 0.914
18 __NUM___america 8
0.00159 0 0.000199
0.083 0 0.915
19 twenti_percent 8
0.00119 0 0.00139
0.0824 0 0.915
20 week_ago 23
0.00239 0 0.0227
0.0607 0 0.914
21 unit_state 52
0 0 0.0697
0.000398 0 0.93
22 natur_ga 6
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
23 lower_price 23
0.000199 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
24 clean_energi 9
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
25 nuclear_power 1
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
26 nuclear_plant 19
0.0109 0 0.000796
0 0 0.988
27 good_job 6
0.00756 0 0.000995
0.0109 0 0.98
28 clean_coal 9
0.00239 0 0.000398
0.0183 0 0.979
29 creat_job 3
0.000796 0 0.000199
0.0203 0 0.979
30 clean_coal 9
0 0 0.00876
0.0131 0 0.978
31 electr_car 72
0 0 0.0165
0 0 0.983
32 solar_power 25
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
33 high_tech 9
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
34 __NUM___compani 7
0 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
35 wind_turbin 3
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
36 suppli_chain 1
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
37 solar_energi 5
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
38 state_univers 8
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
39 manufactur_base 8
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
40 nuclear_power 19
0.00219 0 0.000398
0 0 0.997
41 electr_car 13
0.00557 0 0.000995
0.00219 0 0.991
42 senat_obama 18
0.355 0 0.0428
0.00756 0 0.595
43 obama_agenda 0
0.00159 0 0.000597
0.362 0 0.636
44 econom_recoveri 15
0.613 0 0.000597
0.357 0 0.0293
45 small_busi 15
0.0486 0 0
0.951 0 0.000199
46 creat___NUM__ 2
0.00358 0 0
0.996 0 0
47 __NUM___job 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
48 small_busi 11
0.0139 0 0.000199
0.986 0 0
49 wage_cut 80
0.0985 0 0.000398
0.901 0 0
50 real_problem 10
0.0135 0 0
0.986 0.000199 0
51 health_care 2
0.00279 0 0.000199
0.996 0.000796 0
52 make_life 21
0.0261 0 0
0.974 0 0
53 small_busi 3
0.00418 0 0
0.996 0 0
54 senat_obama 17
0.0193 0 0.00159
0.979 0 0
55 import_thing 27
0.0291 0 0.00119
0.969 0 0.000796
56 rais_tax 7
0.0103 0 0
0.99 0 0
57 __NUM___million 21
0.0249 0 0
0.975 0 0
58 small_busi 1
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
59 busi_owner 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
60 senat_obama 11
0.0135 0 0
0.986 0 0
61 tax_rate 6
0.00577 0 0
0.994 0 0
62 mutual_fund 13
0.0153 0 0
0.985 0 0
63 retir_plan 6
0.00577 0 0
0.994 0 0
64 estat_tax 10
0.0117 0 0
0.988 0 0
65 world_trade 72
0.0858 0 0
0.914 0 0
66 million_job 18
0.0265 0 0
0.974 0 0
67 open_market 3
0.00517 0 0
0.995 0 0
68 job_creation 3
0.00458 0 0
0.995 0 0
69 plant_close 41
0.0366 0 0.000398
0.963 0 0
70 commun_colleg 13
0.00378 0 0.00517
0.99 0 0.000597
71 job_creation 51
0.626 0 0.0326
0.34 0 0.000597
72 energi_bill 99
0.202 0 0.0189
0.754 0 0.0249
73 oil_compani 7
0.0105 0 0
0.946 0 0.043
74 __MONEY___billion 14
0.03 0 0.00139
0.94 0 0.0289
75 senat_obama 32
0.0595 0 0.00199
0.938 0 0.000796
76 __MONEY___million 4
0.00557 0 0.000597
0.992 0 0.00199
77 million_dollar 10
0.0111 0 0.000597
0.987 0 0.000796
78 work_dai 5
0.00637 0 0.00816
0.984 0 0.00159
79 unit_state 5
0.000398 0 0.916
0.0669 0 0.0171
80 state_senat 0
0 0 0.0177
0.0507 0 0.932
81 good_time 5
0.00318 0 0.0185
0.048 0 0.93
82 econom_downturn 22
0.884 0 0.00478
0.05 0 0.0613
83 tough_time 8
0.0161 0 0.00338
0.923 0 0.0579
84 govern_creat 74
0.141 0 0.000796
0.856 0 0.00219
85 creat_job 0
0.00199 0 0
0.995 0 0.00299
86 parti_polit 107
0.0117 0 0.919
0.0667 0.000199 0.00219
87 special_interest 3
0.00338 0 0.00995
0.0776 0 0.909
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