John McCain

This speech titled 2008.10.17.remarks_in_miami_florida originally had 2061 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 101 cue terms and an average lag of 17.4. 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 54
0.943 0 0.0569
0 0 0
2 tax_increas 1
0.00458 0 0.000398
0.941 0 0.0537
3 senat_obama 8
0.0101 0 0.137
0.799 0 0.0533
4 tough_question 18
0.00816 0 0.358
0.452 0 0.182
5 senat_obama 8
0.00836 0 0.0257
0.437 0 0.529
6 tough_question 6
0.00338 0 0.0161
0.432 0 0.549
7 senat_obama 4
0.00299 0 0.0121
0.425 0 0.56
8 person_life 14
0.00677 0 0.0454
0.398 0.000199 0.55
9 senat_obama 17
0.0384 0 0.0239
0.397 0 0.54
10 tough_question 29
0.0712 0 0.0356
0.418 0 0.475
11 senat_obama 20
0.494 0 0.00139
0.477 0 0.0277
12 obama_plan 0
0.0227 0 0
0.972 0 0.00537
13 rais_tax 2
0.00955 0 0
0.99 0 0
14 small_busi 2
0.00358 0 0
0.996 0 0
15 __NUM___million_american 3
0.00318 0 0
0.997 0 0
16 senat_obama 2
0.00418 0 0
0.996 0 0
17 obama_plan 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
18 creat_job 20
0.0221 0 0
0.978 0 0
19 senat_obama 7
0.00816 0 0.000398
0.991 0 0
20 obama_claim 29
0.0324 0 0
0.968 0 0
21 tax_break 6
0.00796 0 0
0.992 0 0
22 middl_class 3
0.00438 0 0
0.996 0 0
23 higher_tax 9
0.00756 0 0
0.992 0 0
24 middl_class 3
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
25 tax_dollar 10
0.00816 0 0
0.992 0 0
26 pai_tax 5
0.00597 0 0
0.994 0 0
27 tax_cut 4
0.00438 0 0
0.996 0 0
28 redistribut_wealth 13
0.0145 0 0.000199
0.985 0 0
29 hard_time 20
0.0153 0 0.322
0.661 0.000796 0.000995
30 georg_bush 124
0 0 0.781
0 0 0.219
31 senat_obama 3
0 0 0.00955
0 0 0.99
32 georg_bush 5
0 0 0.0133
0 0 0.987
33 __NUM___year_ago 8
0.000995 0 0.0185
0 0 0.98
34 elect_presid 37
0.731 0 0.0209
0.00179 0 0.247
35 spend___MONEY___billion 36
0.292 0 0.000597
0.704 0 0.00358
36 billion_dollar 1
0.00219 0 0
0.994 0 0.00418
37 wall_street 8
0.0141 0 0.00398
0.98 0 0.00239
38 retir_account 115
0.132 0 0
0.868 0 0
39 social_secur 11
0.0115 0 0
0.988 0 0
40 futur_gener 28
0.032 0 0.00139
0.967 0 0
41 make_america 15
0.0215 0 0.000199
0.978 0 0
42 creat_job 4
0.00537 0 0
0.995 0 0
43 rais_tax 4
0.00517 0 0
0.995 0 0
44 creat_job 10
0.0119 0 0
0.988 0 0
45 govern_spend 14
0.0159 0 0
0.984 0 0
46 foreign_countri 13
0.0175 0 0
0.982 0.000199 0
47 elect_presid 22
0.0281 0 0
0.972 0 0
48 trillion_dollar 7
0.00915 0 0
0.991 0 0
49 __MONEY___billion 10
0.0109 0 0.000199
0.989 0 0
50 treasuri_secretari 5
0.00657 0 0
0.993 0 0
51 senat_obama 3
0.00557 0 0.000796
0.994 0 0
52 govern_spend 33
0.041 0 0
0.959 0 0
53 social_secur 14
0.0151 0 0
0.985 0 0
54 health_care 2
0.00418 0 0
0.996 0 0
55 govern_program 6
0.00816 0 0
0.992 0 0
56 american_peopl 12
0.0115 0 0.000995
0.987 0 0
57 congress_pass 10
0.0149 0 0
0.985 0 0
58 elect_presid 3
0.00637 0 0
0.994 0 0
59 small_busi 5
0.00736 0 0
0.993 0 0
60 senat_obama 7
0.0111 0 0.000398
0.988 0 0
61 health_care 12
0.0159 0 0.00159
0.982 0.000199 0
62 health_plan 54
0.0585 0 0
0.94 0 0.000995
63 stai_home 10
0.0129 0 0
0.987 0 0
64 american_famili 6
0.00935 0 0
0.991 0 0
65 tax_credit 5
0.00697 0 0
0.993 0 0
66 health_care 10
0.00975 0 0
0.99 0.000398 0
67 health_insur 19
0.0213 0 0
0.979 0 0
68 elect_presid 19
0.0229 0 0
0.977 0 0
69 rais_tax 4
0.00597 0 0
0.994 0 0
70 small_busi 2
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
71 senat_obama 3
0.00398 0 0.00318
0.993 0 0.000199
72 small_busi 12
0.0155 0 0.00756
0.974 0 0.00338
73 elect_presid 25
0.0179 0 0.405
0.565 0 0.0119
74 polit_prison 14
0.00239 0 0.383
0.2 0.00279 0.412
75 free_elect 9
0.00438 0 0.00995
0.195 0.00299 0.788
76 cuban_govern 14
0.00796 0 0.00796
0.192 0.00299 0.789
77 elect_presid 58
0.687 0 0.035
0.175 0 0.103
78 senat_obama 17
0.0965 0 0.00776
0.841 0 0.0543
79 rais_tax 48
0.116 0 0
0.884 0 0.000199
80 senat_obama 9
0.0153 0 0
0.985 0 0
81 herbert_hoover 3
0.00458 0 0
0.995 0 0
82 senat_obama 41
0.0501 0 0.000398
0.949 0 0
83 elect_presid 4
0.00697 0 0
0.993 0 0
84 __MONEY___billion 7
0.00796 0 0.000199
0.992 0 0
85 nuclear_power_plant 23
0.0257 0 0.00179
0.973 0 0
86 senat_obama 6
0.00756 0 0.000398
0.99 0 0.00179
87 clean_coal 41
0.05 0 0
0.949 0 0.00119
88 __NUM___dai 32
0.0424 0 0.00259
0.955 0 0
89 __NUM___point 4
0.00716 0 0.000199
0.992 0 0.000597
90 nation_media 3
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
91 senat_obama 5
0.00697 0 0
0.993 0 0
92 speaker_pelosi 9
0.0109 0 0
0.989 0 0
93 rais_tax 5
0.00716 0 0
0.993 0 0
94 increas_spend 2
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0.000199 0
95 secret_ballot 9
0.0103 0 0.077
0.911 0 0.00139
96 american_peopl 53
0.00159 0 0.883
0.0432 0 0.0722
97 long_line 5
0 0 0.0541
0.00139 0 0.944
98 love_america 7
0 0 0.0167
0 0 0.983
99 great_countri 43
0.000199 0 0.0919
0 0 0.908
100 world_economi 22
0.00199 0 0.0486
0 0 0.949
101 free_peopl 198
0.000597 0.000199 0.373
0 0 0.627
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 69