John McCain

This speech titled 2007.09.27.address_to_the_hudson_institute_in_washington_dc originally had 2830 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 83 cue terms and an average lag of 30.8. 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 hudson_institut 14
✓
0.0119 0.0219 0.966
✗
0 0 0
2 global_secur 5
✓
0 0 0.0181
✗
0.00975 0.0205 0.952
3 gener_petraeu 86
✓
0 0 0.38
✗
0 0 0.62
4 gave_congress 8
✓
0 0 0.00517
✗
0 0 0.995
5 long_overdu 24
✓
0 0 0.0127
✗
0 0 0.987
6 lead_democrat 45
✓
0 0 0.00975
✗
0 0 0.99
7 presidenti_candid 2
✓
0 0 0.00199
✗
0 0 0.998
8 gener_petraeu 67
✓
0 0 0.0167
✗
0 0 0.983
9 american_forc 2
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
10 gener_petraeu 87
✓
0 0 0.0283
✗
0 0 0.972
11 long_war 127
✓
0 0 0.0302
✗
0 0 0.97
12 polit_reform 37
✓
0 0 0.00776
✗
0 0 0.992
13 make_progress 21
✓
0 0 0.00537
✗
0 0 0.995
14 al_qaeda 2
✓
0 0 0.000398
✗
0 0 1
15 safe_haven 67
✓
0 0 0.0139
✗
0 0 0.986
16 civil_war 2
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
17 gener_petraeu 28
✓
0 0 0.0137
✗
0 0 0.986
18 small_thing 10
✓
0 0 0.0123
✗
0 0 0.988
19 suicid_bomber 8
✓
0 0 0.00597
✗
0 0 0.994
20 american_soldier 19
✓
0 0 0.00458
✗
0 0 0.995
21 al_qaeda 40
✓
0 0 0.00995
✗
0 0 0.99
22 polit_progress 15
✓
0 0 0.00378
✗
0 0 0.996
23 columbia_univers 84
✓
0.000597 0 0.208
✗
0 0 0.791
24 american_soldier 19
✓
0 0 0.0125
✗
0 0 0.987
25 great_american 36
✓
0 0 0.247
✗
0 0 0.753
26 american_univers 0
✓
0 0 0.000995
✗
0 0 0.999
27 arm_forc 17
✓
0 0 0.0101
✗
0 0 0.99
28 academ_elit 4
✓
0 0 0.00279
✗
0 0 0.997
29 liber_polit 72
✓
0 0 0.0555
✗
0 0 0.944
30 polit_thought 0
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
0 0 1
31 young_men 3
✓
0 0 0.00796
✗
0 0 0.992
32 radic_islam 28
✓
0 0 0.0117
✗
0 0 0.988
33 long_war 17
✓
0 0 0.00955
✗
0 0 0.99
34 polit_courag 24
✓
0 0 0.528
✗
0 0 0.472
35 privat_sector 36
✓
0.000398 0 0.0547
✗
0 0 0.945
36 berlin_wall 80
✓
0.000398 0 0.108
✗
0 0 0.891
37 twin_tower 6
✓
0 0 0.00318
✗
0.000199 0 0.997
38 roughli___NUM__ 92
✓
0.00179 0.000199 0.0993
✗
0 0 0.899
39 vital_import 32
✓
0 0 0.0488
✗
0 0 0.951
40 young_men 15
✓
0 0 0.0113
✗
0 0 0.989
41 previou_gener 31
✓
0 0 0.0237
✗
0 0 0.976
42 feder_spend 46
✓
0.000796 0 0.0291
✗
0 0 0.97
43 defens_budget 24
✓
0 0 0.0121
✗
0 0 0.988
44 __NUM___cent 5
✓
0 0 0.00259
✗
0 0 0.997
45 cold_war 17
✓
0 0 0.0109
✗
0 0 0.989
46 arm_forc 5
✓
0 0 0.00179
✗
0 0 0.998
47 larg_extent 9
✓
0 0 0.00199
✗
0 0 0.998
48 longer_exist 12
✓
0 0 0.00239
✗
0 0 0.998
49 aircraft_carrier 5
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
50 secur_forc 69
✓
0 0 0.0137
✗
0 0 0.986
51 __NUM___soldier 43
✓
0.000199 0 0.00995
✗
0 0 0.99
52 special_forc 19
✓
0 0 0.00279
✗
0 0 0.997
53 militari_intellig 8
✓
0 0 0.00159
✗
0 0 0.998
54 spend_time 60
✓
0 0 0.0157
✗
0 0 0.984
55 geneva_convent 56
✓
0 0 0.0121
✗
0 0 0.988
56 undu_burden 19
✓
0 0 0.00498
✗
0 0 0.995
57 state_depart 31
✓
0 0 0.00756
✗
0 0 0.992
58 militari_servic 74
✓
0 0 0.0165
✗
0 0 0.983
59 civil_servant 9
✓
0 0 0.00219
✗
0 0 0.998
60 clinton_administr 33
✓
0 0 0.00776
✗
0 0 0.992
61 unit_state 9
✓
0 0 0.00577
✗
0 0 0.994
62 state_depart 11
✓
0 0 0.00259
✗
0 0 0.997
63 sole_purpos 69
✓
0 0 0.0125
✗
0 0 0.987
64 islam_extrem 14
✓
0 0 0.00358
✗
0 0 0.996
65 cold_war 2
✓
0 0 0.000995
✗
0 0 0.999
66 islam_extrem 38
✓
0 0 0.00915
✗
0 0 0.991
67 polic_presenc 25
✓
0 0 0.00498
✗
0 0 0.995
68 polic_forc 20
✓
0 0 0.00299
✗
0 0 0.997
69 islam_extrem 3
✓
0 0 0.000995
✗
0 0 0.999
70 polit_freedom 23
✓
0 0 0.00478
✗
0 0 0.995
71 good_govern 2
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
72 econom_develop 3
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
73 world_war_ii 20
✓
0 0 0.0205
✗
0 0 0.98
74 intellig_agenc 34
✓
0 0 0.00716
✗
0 0 0.993
75 terrorist_organ 74
✓
0 0 0.0209
✗
0 0 0.979
76 fail_state 13
✓
0 0 0.00338
✗
0 0 0.997
77 terrorist_activ 15
✓
0 0 0.00537
✗
0 0 0.995
78 long_war 48
✓
0 0 0.00935
✗
0 0 0.991
79 american_peopl 52
✓
0.0223 0 0.515
✗
0 0 0.463
80 american_voter 160
✓
0.0281 0 0.656
✗
0.00398 0 0.312
81 elect_presid 12
✓
0.00498 0 0.0386
✗
0.0279 0 0.929
82 american_peopl 6
✓
0.000597 0 0.0247
✗
0.0299 0 0.945
83 democrat_candid 41
✓
0.0157 0.000199 0.13
✗
0.0255 0 0.828
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