John McCain

This speech titled 2008.04.17.interview_with_peter_cook_on_bloomberg_tv originally had 2938 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 106 cue terms and an average lag of 25.2. 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_mccain 3
0.00159 0 0.998
0 0 0
2 senat_clinton 118
0.387 0 0.137
0.00159 0 0.474
3 senat_obama 16
0.106 0 0.0167
0.385 0 0.493
4 reverend_wright 21
0.0907 0 0.0185
0.485 0 0.405
5 gener_elect 18
0.00915 0 0.0139
0.576 0 0.401
6 fair_game 10
0.0185 0 0.00856
0.585 0 0.388
7 reverend_wright 10
0.00219 0 0.00677
0.604 0 0.387
8 senat_obama 13
0.00119 0 0.0105
0.606 0 0.382
9 reverend_wright 8
0.000199 0 0.00537
0.607 0 0.387
10 small_town 35
0.0382 0 0.276
0.607 0 0.0786
11 america_histori 12
0.00199 0 0.0149
0.645 0 0.338
12 great_depress 3
0.000398 0 0.00139
0.647 0 0.352
13 greatest_gener 22
0.00955 0.000199 0.172
0.632 0.000199 0.185
14 world_safe 7
0.000796 0 0.00736
0.64 0.000398 0.351
15 econom_situat 19
0.00398 0 0.0776
0.582 0.000398 0.336
16 unit_state 19
0.00597 0 0.5
0.146 0 0.348
17 senat_obama 74
0.0297 0 0.294
0.0354 0 0.641
18 american_peopl 42
0.00517 0 0.144
0.0175 0 0.833
19 ronald_reagan 62
0.00179 0 0.158
0.00159 0 0.838
20 georg_bush 18
0 0 0.0472
0 0.000199 0.953
21 year_ago 6
0.000597 0 0.0171
0 0.000199 0.982
22 kitchen_tabl 31
0.0153 0 0.0852
0.000199 0 0.899
23 america_economi 118
0.00597 0.000199 0.296
0.00378 0 0.694
24 free_trade 36
0.721 0 0.0265
0.0111 0 0.241
25 kei_element 3
0.00557 0 0.0111
0.724 0 0.259
26 econom_recoveri 2
0.248 0 0.000199
0.731 0 0.0205
27 tough_time 4
0.0137 0 0.000398
0.974 0 0.0123
28 american_famili 11
0.0231 0 0
0.976 0 0.000597
29 small_town 3
0.00458 0 0.000796
0.994 0.000597 0
30 religi_belief 8
0.00239 0 0
0.997 0.000597 0
31 bear_arm 11
0.00139 0 0.000199
0.998 0.000597 0
32 corpor_tax 40
0.861 0 0
0.139 0 0
33 tax_rate 0
0.00279 0 0
0.997 0 0
34 bush_tax_cut 61
0.0706 0 0
0.929 0 0
35 discretionari_spend 15
0.0171 0 0
0.983 0 0
36 capit_gain 88
0.113 0 0
0.887 0 0
37 econom_growth 4
0.00498 0 0
0.995 0 0
38 discretionari_spend 39
0.0494 0 0.00637
0.944 0 0
39 unit_state 17
0.00358 0 0.823
0.164 0.000199 0.00935
40 state_senat 0
0.000199 0 0.00677
0.163 0 0.83
41 highwai_system 47
0.0472 0 0.104
0.15 0 0.699
42 senat_obama 52
0.119 0 0.163
0.0798 0 0.638
43 american_voter 77
0.0858 0 0.152
0.152 0 0.611
44 __MONEY___billion 15
0.735 0 0.00975
0.235 0 0.0205
45 tax_cut 16
0.0486 0 0
0.951 0 0
46 __MONEY___billion 18
0.0207 0 0.000597
0.979 0 0
47 unit_state 21
0.0269 0 0.00318
0.97 0.000199 0
48 addit___MONEY__ 4
0.00816 0 0
0.991 0.000398 0
49 __MONEY___billion 0
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0.000199 0
50 increas_spend 27
0.0338 0 0
0.966 0 0
51 __MONEY___billion 3
0.00438 0 0
0.996 0 0
52 discretionari_spend 35
0.0388 0 0.000199
0.961 0 0
53 __MONEY___billion 34
0.04 0 0.00438
0.955 0 0.000199
54 small_amount 25
0.0253 0 0.00219
0.967 0.000597 0.00458
55 american_peopl 26
0.0354 0 0.00318
0.959 0 0.00279
56 tax_dollar 11
0.0155 0 0
0.984 0 0.000199
57 social_secur 10
0.0139 0 0.000995
0.985 0 0
58 __MONEY___million 11
0.00856 0 0.255
0.734 0 0.00239
59 hous_crisi 35
0.0175 0 0.332
0.407 0 0.243
60 month_ago 5
0.00458 0 0.0133
0.417 0 0.565
61 big_bank 29
0.0117 0 0.182
0.294 0 0.512
62 work_american 83
0.246 0 0.0346
0.28 0 0.44
63 american_famili 0
0.000995 0 0.00716
0.518 0 0.473
64 mortgag_payment 16
0.00617 0 0.252
0.278 0.000995 0.463
65 __NUM___peopl 136
0.083 0 0.208
0.142 0.000199 0.567
66 wall_street 43
0.00219 0 0.362
0.0299 0 0.606
67 pai_packag 34
0 0 0.044
0 0 0.956
68 ordinari_american 5
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
69 american_famili 0
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
70 american_dream 7
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
71 alan_greenspan 19
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
72 fed_chairman 6
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
73 interest_rate 3
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
74 alan_greenspan 40
0 0 0.0133
0 0 0.987
75 __NUM___year 24
0 0 0.00796
0 0 0.992
76 america_economi 12
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
77 interest_rate 5
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
78 feder_reserv 15
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
79 interest_rate 23
0 0 0.00896
0 0 0.991
80 alan_greenspan 8
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
81 interest_rate 44
0.0163 0 0.0185
0 0 0.965
82 greenhous_ga_emiss 82
0 0 0.989
0 0 0.0111
83 greenhous_ga_emiss 17
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
84 senat_floor 12
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
85 greenhous_ga_emiss 7
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
86 year___NUM__ 7
0.000398 0 0.03
0 0 0.97
87 good_friend 7
0 0 0.866
0 0 0.134
88 joe_lieberman 2
0 0 0.00896
0 0 0.991
89 dramat_increas 18
0 0 0.0362
0 0 0.964
90 nuclear_power 3
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
91 environment_group 3
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
92 nuclear_power 11
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
93 big_part 7
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
94 greenhous_ga_emiss 7
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
95 vice_presid 125
0 0 0.997
0 0 0.00338
96 presid_john 2
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
97 john_mccain 0
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
98 dick_chenei 8
0.000199 0 0.0199
0 0 0.98
99 georg_bush 3
0 0 0.0103
0 0 0.99
100 vice_presid 43
0 0 0.0979
0 0 0.902
101 democrat_oppon 156
0 0 0.309
0 0 0.691
102 south_carolina 44
0 0 0.0882
0 0 0.912
103 senat_obama 7
0 0 0.0177
0 0 0.982
104 senat_clinton 2
0.000199 0 0.00677
0 0 0.993
105 primari_season 31
0 0 0.0645
0 0 0.936
106 senat_mccain 26
0 0 0.0543
0 0 0.946
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