Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.01.29 originally had 3010 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 116 cue terms and an average lag of 22.8. 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 health_care 53
0.932 0 0.0679
0 0 0
2 clean_energi 2
0.0253 0 0.00378
0.91 0 0.0611
3 american_idea 11
0.119 0 0.00119
0.877 0 0.00259
4 democrat_parti 8
0.0418 0 0.000796
0.956 0 0.00159
5 red_state 96
0.12 0 0
0.88 0 0
6 blue_state 2
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
7 win_elect 39
0.0279 0 0
0.972 0 0
8 el_dorado 42
0.12 0 0.000199
0.879 0 0
9 young_man 4
0.00995 0 0
0.99 0 0
10 young_woman 6
0.00856 0 0.000199
0.991 0 0
11 small_farm 26
0.934 0 0.00119
0.0645 0 0
12 bank_failur 8
0.035 0.000199 0.00677
0.957 0 0.000995
13 pearl_harbor 28
0.176 0 0.00219
0.821 0 0.00119
14 gave_birth 2
0.00975 0 0.000796
0.986 0 0.00338
15 assembl_line 16
0.123 0 0.00716
0.87 0 0.000199
16 gi_bill 86
0.317 0 0
0.683 0 0
17 feder_hous 7
0.0235 0 0
0.977 0 0
18 singl_parent 65
0.649 0 0
0.351 0 0
19 food_stamp 6
0.00617 0 0
0.994 0 0
20 class_famili 57
0.533 0.00179 0.0967
0.369 0 0
21 south_side 3
0.11 0 0
0.89 0 0
22 thirti_year 14
0.00736 0 0.00896
0.984 0 0
23 stai_home 39
0.876 0 0.00159
0.122 0 0
24 singl_mom 46
0.341 0 0.000199
0.659 0 0
25 small_town 5
0.0312 0 0
0.969 0 0
26 red_state 61
0.26 0 0
0.74 0 0
27 blue_state 2
0.00577 0 0
0.994 0 0
28 unit_state 10
0.0285 0 0.00199
0.97 0 0
29 south_carolina 60
0.0609 0 0
0.939 0 0
30 black_children 7
0.00796 0 0.00139
0.991 0 0
31 main_street 15
0.0724 0 0.925
0.00139 0 0.00139
32 wall_street 2
0.00537 0 0.00478
0.0706 0 0.919
33 young_peopl 49
0.923 0.000199 0.0203
0.0545 0 0.00179
34 america_todai 66
0.298 0.000199 0.0225
0.672 0 0.00697
35 health_care 41
0.122 0.00299 0.411
0.457 0 0.00697
36 campaign_promis 13
0.00716 0.00159 0.419
0.173 0.00279 0.397
37 tax_cut 8
0.0173 0.00119 0.0498
0.146 0.00438 0.781
38 work_famili 5
0.0478 0.000199 0.0119
0.161 0.00557 0.773
39 make_room 5
0.0687 0.000199 0.0109
0.203 0.00517 0.712
40 tax_monei 117
0.789 0.000199 0.0714
0.0872 0.000398 0.0515
41 year_ago 159
0.325 0.000199 0.11
0.531 0 0.0344
42 health_care 90
0.337 0 0.0183
0.628 0 0.0169
43 common_purpos 58
0.162 0 0.00179
0.835 0 0.00179
44 american_peopl 33
0.45 0 0.0392
0.509 0 0.00199
45 work_famili 24
0.544 0.00119 0.0285
0.41 0 0.0165
46 commun_organ 24
0.0945 0 0
0.905 0 0
47 year_ago 4
0.00159 0 0
0.998 0 0
48 steel_mill 7
0.00498 0 0
0.995 0 0
49 white_peopl 4
0.00179 0 0
0.998 0 0
50 black_peopl 2
0.00159 0 0
0.998 0 0
51 job_train 6
0.00378 0 0.00537
0.991 0 0
52 same_thing 31
0.0173 0 0.568
0.41 0 0.00498
53 work_famili 3
0.000995 0 0.176
0.257 0 0.566
54 econom_stimulu 8
0 0 0.266
0.000199 0 0.734
55 stimulu_packag 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
56 work_famili 14
0.000199 0 0.00338
0 0 0.996
57 week_ago 10
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
58 tax_relief 6
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
59 work_famili 2
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
60 unemploy_insur 17
0.00119 0 0.00438
0 0 0.994
61 tax_cut 36
0.00139 0.000398 0.987
0 0 0.0111
62 georg_bush 13
0 0 0.0338
0 0 0.966
63 bush_tax_cut 0
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
64 tax_relief 18
0.000995 0.000995 0.17
0 0 0.828
65 class_famili 5
0.000796 0 0.158
0 0.000796 0.84
66 tax_break 14
0 0 0.0744
0 0 0.926
67 job_oversea 6
0 0 0.0396
0 0 0.96
68 tax_cut 9
0.000398 0.00299 0.0812
0 0 0.915
69 work_famili 5
0.00219 0.000398 0.0302
0.000398 0.00299 0.964
70 tax_cut 2
0 0.000199 0.0836
0.000995 0.00338 0.912
71 work_famili 9
0.00478 0.000199 0.165
0 0.00199 0.828
72 tax_credit 11
0.00856 0 0.188
0.00219 0 0.801
73 mortgag_interest 9
0 0 0.159
0 0 0.841
74 interest_payment 0
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
75 incom_tax 14
0.000995 0.0111 0.586
0 0 0.401
76 retir_account 52
0.000199 0 0.445
0 0.000199 0.555
77 small_percentag 4
0 0 0.00776
0 0 0.992
78 feder_govern 19
0.0217 0 0.0151
0 0 0.963
79 work_famili 10
0.00716 0 0.00836
0.0195 0 0.965
80 ten_year 12
0.00279 0 0.00856
0.0255 0 0.963
81 minimum_wage 4
0.00597 0 0.00537
0.0281 0 0.961
82 credit_card 19
0.000199 0 0.953
0 0 0.0468
83 credit_card_compani 7
0 0 0.0424
0 0 0.958
84 interest_rate 13
0.00338 0 0.0117
0 0 0.985
85 credit_card_compani 34
0 0 0.0185
0 0 0.981
86 same_principl 3
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
87 bankruptci_law 5
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
88 credit_card 4
0.000199 0 0.00478
0 0 0.995
89 work_famili 9
0.0519 0.000796 0.0129
0.000199 0 0.934
90 stop_talk 56
0.923 0 0.0302
0.0388 0 0.00776
91 __NUM___million 5
0.0545 0 0.00338
0.92 0 0.0225
92 health_care 19
0.0764 0 0.000995
0.921 0 0.00179
93 health_insur 23
0.0133 0 0
0.987 0 0
94 __NUM___children 2
0.000597 0 0
0.999 0 0
95 univers_health_care 12
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
96 health_care_plan 0
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
97 same_kind 12
0.00378 0 0
0.996 0 0
98 health_care 2
0.000597 0 0.00299
0.996 0 0
99 cut_cost 13
0.00338 0 0.0267
0.967 0 0.00299
100 twenti_year 21
0.00975 0 0.35
0.612 0 0.0287
101 ten_year 5
0.000995 0 0.0392
0.583 0 0.377
102 health_care 6
0.0157 0 0.0263
0.549 0 0.409
103 special_interest 25
0.183 0 0.373
0.0149 0 0.428
104 american_public 78
0.00955 0 0.211
0.0304 0 0.749
105 rais_monei 3
0.000199 0 0.00139
0.0398 0 0.959
106 washington_lobbyist 10
0.000597 0 0.00537
0.0392 0 0.955
107 white_hous 10
0.00318 0 0.00657
0.038 0 0.952
108 work_american 11
0.00458 0 0.0129
0.0364 0 0.946
109 graduat_school 62
0.564 0 0.03
0.0127 0 0.394
110 earli_childhood 77
0.485 0 0
0.515 0 0
111 childhood_educ 0
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0
112 tax_credit 44
0.113 0 0.00139
0.886 0 0
113 colleg_educ 7
0.0615 0 0
0.939 0 0
114 previou_gener 40
0.81 0 0.0175
0.173 0 0
115 common_sens 85
0.0969 0 0.634
0.257 0 0.0127
116 share_prosper 8
0.00995 0 0.0374
0.316 0 0.636
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 159