John McCain

This speech titled 2008.08.20.remarks_to_a_town_hall_meeting_in_new_mexico originally had 10906 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 284 cue terms and an average lag of 35.0. You can see the original speech or the tokenized/stemmed speech with overlaying cue-lags.


Cue-lag representation

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# Cue term Lag before term Posterior distribution
Restart ∑Left Center ∑Right
1 high_school 48
✓
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0 0 0
✗
0 0 0.964
3 unit_state 12
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
0.00299 0 0.129
✗
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✓
0 0 0.0557
✗
0 0 0.944
7 state_senat 0
✓
0 0 0.00239
✗
0 0 0.998
8 town_hall_meet 79
✓
0 0 0.16
✗
0 0 0.84
9 senat_obama 20
✓
0.00119 0 0.0428
✗
0 0 0.956
10 long_time 10
✓
0 0 0.0231
✗
0 0 0.977
11 time_ago 0
✓
0 0 0.00159
✗
0 0 0.998
12 senat_obama 2
✓
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✗
0 0 0.993
13 town_hall_meet 6
✓
0 0 0.0121
✗
0 0 0.988
14 barri_goldwat 11
✓
0 0 0.0219
✗
0 0 0.978
15 town_hall_meet 13
✓
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✗
0 0 0.97
16 sound_bite 26
✓
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✗
0 0 0.943
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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19 saturdai_night 3
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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24 control_spend 46
✓
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✗
0.257 0 0.453
25 ronald_reagan 26
✓
0.0595 0.000597 0.0342
✗
0.468 0.00279 0.435
26 spend_monei 6
✓
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✗
0.519 0.00736 0.436
27 troop_home 115
✓
0.000796 0 0.67
✗
0.00219 0 0.327
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✓
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✗
0.00259 0 0.973
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✓
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✗
0.000199 0 0.908
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0 0 0.905
32 soviet_union 7
✓
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33 young_man 15
✓
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✗
0 0 0.965
34 unit_state 9
✓
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✗
0 0 0.97
35 georg_washington 6
✓
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✗
0 0.00179 0.98
36 art_histori 59
✓
0.00617 0.000597 0.12
✗
0 0.00418 0.869
37 young_peopl 51
✓
0 0 0.152
✗
0 0 0.848
38 cold_war 29
✓
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✗
0 0 0.941
39 vladimir_putin 34
✓
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✗
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40 histori_book 15
✓
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✗
0.00159 0 0.94
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✓
0.00438 0 0.266
✗
0.00756 0 0.722
42 missil_defens 134
✓
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✗
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43 cut_back 8
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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45 unit_state 19
✓
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✗
0 0 0.991
46 energi_independ 3
✓
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✗
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47 __MONEY___billion 6
✓
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✗
0 0 0.999
48 world_trade_organ 41
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0 0 0.999
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✓
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✗
0 0 0.999
53 nuclear_power 14
✓
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✗
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54 energi_independ 23
✓
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✗
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55 nuclear_power_plant 15
✓
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✗
0 0 0.999
56 nuclear_fuel 20
✓
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✗
0 0 0.999
57 nuclear_power 18
✓
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✗
0 0 1
58 american_presid 35
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0.216 0 0.00796
63 rais_tax 3
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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68 love_america 106
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0.0629 0.000398 0.588
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0 0 1
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0.276 0.000199 0.298
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✓
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✗
0.161 0.000398 0.629
101 big_deal 10
✓
0.00119 0 0.0547
✗
0.13 0.000199 0.814
102 tom_coburn 46
✓
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✗
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103 feder_prison 34
✓
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✗
0.0119 0 0.868
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✓
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✗
0.000796 0 0.872
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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107 unit_state 26
✓
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✗
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108 twelv_year 110
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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113 year_ago 3
✓
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✗
0 0 0.991
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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120 senat_mccain 55
✓
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✗
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121 bin_laden 11
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✓
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✗
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✗
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✗
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✗
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✗
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✗
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✗
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✗
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✗
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0.99 0 0
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✓
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✗
0.999 0 0
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0.0259 0 0.868
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✓
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✗
0.0215 0.000199 0.938
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✓
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✗
0.00796 0.000199 0.798
253 child_left 211
✓
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✗
0.00776 0 0.651
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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268 card_check 26
✓
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✗
0.211 0.00259 0.729
269 secret_ballot 15
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0.074 0.00557 0.478
271 unit_state 103
✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0 0 0.909
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
0 0 0.985
280 young_american 21
✓
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✗
0 0 0.945
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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✓
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✗
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__END_OF_SPEECH__ 66