Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.02.09 originally had 2437 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 87 cue terms and an average lag of 25.3. 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 state_capitol 20
0.89 0 0.11
0 0 0
2 closest_friend 12
0.0253 0 0.00318
0.874 0 0.0977
3 live_room 71
0.315 0 0
0.685 0 0
4 town_hall_meet 9
0.0167 0 0
0.983 0 0
5 point_plan 68
0.144 0.000199 0.54
0.316 0 0
6 front_yard 81
0.657 0 0.00657
0.323 0 0.0135
7 medic_bill 17
0.0314 0 0.0215
0.931 0 0.0161
8 west_coast 97
0.325 0 0.298
0.37 0 0.00716
9 gulf_coast 3
0.00856 0 0.0137
0.673 0 0.304
10 democrat_nomin 55
0.359 0 0
0.64 0 0.000995
11 senat_clinton 27
0.0251 0 0.000398
0.975 0 0
12 good_idea 9
0.0201 0 0.0159
0.964 0 0
13 unit_state 79
0.183 0 0.315
0.491 0 0.0101
14 republican_parti 12
0.0153 0 0.0732
0.596 0 0.315
15 senat_john 2
0.0171 0 0.0894
0.509 0 0.385
16 john_mccain 0
0.00597 0 0.0235
0.504 0 0.466
17 good_man 7
0.603 0.00199 0.0249
0.162 0 0.208
18 half_centuri 10
0.00478 0.00418 0.705
0.0884 0.00179 0.196
19 georg_bush 21
0 0 0.165
0.000398 0 0.835
20 hundr_year 6
0 0 0.00716
0 0 0.993
21 georg_bush 15
0 0 0.0169
0 0 0.983
22 bush_tax_cut 0
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
23 democrat_parti 100
0.934 0 0.0468
0 0 0.0193
24 american_peopl 11
0.0163 0 0.0326
0.889 0 0.0623
25 john_mccain 9
0.00975 0 0.0295
0.87 0 0.0909
26 american_peopl 72
0.145 0 0.0189
0.778 0 0.0583
27 john_mccain 8
0.0135 0 0.00139
0.911 0 0.0738
28 common_purpos 25
0.0907 0 0
0.906 0 0.00318
29 john_mccain 21
0.0181 0 0.00338
0.975 0 0.00318
30 red_state 21
0.0249 0 0
0.975 0 0
31 swing_state 2
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
32 democrat_nomine 4
0.00378 0 0
0.996 0 0
33 jim_webb 31
0.35 0 0.00438
0.646 0 0
34 make_clear 32
0.13 0.000199 0.485
0.38 0 0.00438
35 unit_state 75
0.86 0 0.0167
0.105 0 0.0187
36 health_care_reform 8
0.0798 0 0.00199
0.911 0 0.00756
37 health_insur 25
0.0386 0 0
0.961 0 0
38 __NUM___children 2
0.000597 0 0
0.999 0 0
39 univers_health_care 13
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
40 twenti_year 4
0.00438 0 0.0127
0.983 0 0
41 ten_year 4
0.00159 0 0.000995
0.985 0 0.0127
42 ted_kennedi 23
0.0595 0 0
0.94 0 0
43 univers_health_care 19
0.00657 0 0
0.993 0 0
44 ted_kennedi 16
0.00498 0 0
0.995 0 0
45 insur_compani 17
0.0537 0 0.000796
0.945 0 0
46 same_kind 19
0.00438 0 0
0.996 0 0
47 health_care 2
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0
48 senat_clinton 16
0.00378 0 0
0.996 0 0
49 clinton_plan 0
0.000398 0 0.000199
0.999 0 0
50 bui_health 15
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
51 health_care 0
0.00239 0 0.00139
0.996 0 0
52 work_famili 59
0.0404 0.0147 0.849
0.0945 0 0.000995
53 rise_cost 12
0.00517 0.000597 0.0388
0.104 0.0145 0.837
54 tax_cut 17
0.00139 0.000796 0.139
0.00279 0.0107 0.846
55 wealthiest___NUM__ 3
0 0.000199 0.00418
0.00318 0.00995 0.982
56 tax_cut 5
0.0121 0.000199 0.172
0.00318 0.00955 0.803
57 __MONEY___million 25
0.172 0 0.442
0.0135 0.00836 0.365
58 tax_relief 2
0.000995 0 0.0105
0.177 0.00836 0.803
59 work_famili 2
0.000995 0 0.00338
0.177 0.00697 0.812
60 work_poor 3
0.000199 0 0.00637
0.178 0.00338 0.813
61 tax_relief 7
0.000398 0 0.0679
0.122 0.00338 0.807
62 tax_break 9
0 0 0.143
0 0 0.857
63 job_oversea 6
0 0 0.00975
0 0 0.99
64 tax_break 7
0 0 0.00657
0 0 0.993
65 work_american 5
0.000597 0 0.00438
0 0 0.995
66 ten_year 21
0.0171 0 0.0141
0.000597 0 0.968
67 minimum_wage 4
0.0149 0 0.00199
0.0175 0 0.966
68 graduat_school 74
0.567 0 0.0338
0.0141 0 0.385
69 earli_childhood 51
0.464 0 0
0.536 0 0
70 childhood_educ 0
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
71 stop_talk 2
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0
72 tax_credit 33
0.0135 0 0.000199
0.986 0 0
73 colleg_educ 7
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
74 final_make 19
0.0187 0 0.00279
0.979 0 0
75 foreign_polici 25
0.748 0 0.192
0.0579 0 0.00219
76 fuel_effici 24
0 0 0.943
0.000199 0 0.0571
77 environment_group 11
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
78 american_peopl 34
0.0129 0 0.0153
0 0 0.972
79 carbon_emiss 28
0.00458 0 0.0161
0.00796 0 0.971
80 foreign_polici 48
0.249 0 0.736
0.00418 0 0.0113
81 john_mccain 22
0.00259 0 0.259
0.0336 0 0.705
82 georg_bush 25
0.00179 0 0.042
0.0185 0 0.938
83 democrat_parti 113
0.971 0 0.00338
0.0159 0 0.00995
84 common_purpos 34
0.0474 0 0
0.953 0 0
85 creat_equal 29
0.583 0 0.00259
0.414 0 0
86 white_hous 23
0.0756 0 0.0297
0.892 0 0.00239
87 american_peopl 230
0.572 0 0.208
0.216 0 0.00438
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