John McCain

This speech titled 2008.08.26.remarks_to_the_90th_annual_american_legion_national_convention_in_phoenix_arizona originally had 3292 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 71 cue terms and an average lag of 41.8. 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 million_american 132
0.00239 0 0.998
0 0 0
2 world_war 5
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
3 west_virginia 19
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
4 stand_ovat 16
0.000199 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
5 middl_east 56
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
6 brought_home 55
0.000597 0 0.0103
0 0 0.989
7 nation_histori 58
0.000199 0 0.0472
0 0 0.953
8 moral_clariti 23
0 0 0.0119
0 0 0.988
9 free_world 11
0 0 0.347
0 0 0.653
10 world_leader 0
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
11 free_nation 63
0 0 0.0706
0 0 0.929
12 senat_obama 76
0.000597 0 0.0862
0 0 0.913
13 import_point 3
0 0 0.00597
0.000597 0 0.993
14 cold_war 9
0 0 0.00637
0 0 0.994
15 war_end 63
0.000398 0 0.0211
0 0 0.979
16 senat_obama 140
0.00438 0 0.0545
0.000199 0 0.941
17 central_asia 83
0 0 0.0261
0 0 0.974
18 militari_action 18
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
19 secur_council 30
0.000796 0 0.0201
0 0 0.979
20 senat_obama 4
0.0165 0 0.102
0.000796 0 0.881
21 democrat_nation 50
0.00677 0.00856 0.207
0.00398 0.00438 0.769
22 free_nation 86
0.00617 0.219 0.0496
0 0.0207 0.705
23 larg_measur 5
0.00617 0.0575 0.00119
0.000398 0.246 0.688
24 unit_state 12
0.0326 0.032 0.00338
0.00398 0.307 0.621
25 arm_forc 1
0 0.0535 0
0 0.377 0.57
26 make_good 12
0.000995 0.0197 0.00458
0 0.43 0.544
27 media_attent 122
0.0671 0.382 0.00597
0 0.451 0.0941
28 health_care 79
0.0243 0.0802 0.000995
0.0127 0.881 0.000398
29 medic_care 96
0 0.00577 0
0 0.994 0
30 mental_health 2
0 0 0
0 1 0
31 health_care 0
0 0 0
0 1 0
32 mental_health 53
0 0 0
0 1 0
33 deni_access 18
0 0 0
0 1 0
34 health_care 78
0.000398 0.000398 0
0 0.999 0
35 bipartisan_support 66
0 0 0
0.000199 1 0
36 nation_prioriti 22
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
37 public_interest 48
0.000199 0 0
0 1 0
38 public_monei 7
0 0 0
0 1 0
39 public_good 4
0 0 0
0 1 0
40 oval_offic 7
0 0 0
0 1 0
41 spend_bill 9
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
42 servic_member 75
0 0 0
0 1 0
43 receiv_benefit 1
0 0 0
0 1 0
44 health_care_system 25
0 0 0
0 1 0
45 wide_rang 7
0 0 0
0 1 0
46 militari_servic 40
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
47 medic_record 75
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
48 same_time 26
0 0 0
0 1 0
49 health_care 15
0 0 0
0 1 0
50 medic_care 69
0 0 0
0 1 0
51 wait_time 24
0 0 0
0 1 0
52 traumat_stress 68
0 0.000398 0
0 1 0
53 arm_forc 45
0 0.000398 0
0 1 0
54 greater_number 2
0 0 0
0 1 0
55 constitut_amend 43
0 0 0
0 1 0
56 law___NUM__ 3
0 0 0
0 1 0
57 __NUM___year_ago 0
0 0 0
0 1 0
58 arm_forc 28
0 0 0
0 1 0
59 unit_state 3
0.000597 0 0.00219
0.000995 0.996 0
60 health_care 102
0.00119 0.00159 0
0.000398 0.997 0
61 obama_campaign 14
0.000199 0.000199 0
0.000995 0.999 0
62 health_care 50
0 0 0
0.000597 0.999 0
63 vantag_point 67
0 0.000597 0
0 0.999 0
64 gi_bill 30
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
65 servic_member 21
0 0.000398 0.00179
0 0.998 0
66 american_peopl 201
0.0539 0 0.944
0.000398 0 0.00139
67 hard_thing 232
0 0 0.351
0 0 0.649
68 fair_share 15
0 0 0
0 0 1
69 good_fortun 98
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
70 defend_america 17
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
71 love_god 34
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
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