Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.04.10 originally had 1172 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 67 cue terms and an average lag of 15.3. 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 econom_situat 17
0.859 0.00219 0.139
0 0 0
2 peopl_mind 15
0.348 0.000199 0.00139
0.64 0 0.00995
3 health_care 15
0.0898 0 0.00577
0.898 0 0.00657
4 colleg_tuition 9
0.0766 0.000199 0.00458
0.909 0 0.00935
5 wall_street 43
0.156 0.000199 0.25
0.588 0.000199 0.00637
6 usa_todai 10
0.0587 0.00796 0.0117
0.697 0.000398 0.224
7 top___NUM__ 23
0.164 0.000995 0.0637
0.677 0.00617 0.0878
8 __MONEY___million 5
0.131 0 0.465
0.299 0.00557 0.0997
9 good_job 27
0.0287 0 0.39
0.07 0 0.511
10 wall_street 4
0.00179 0 0.0386
0.0641 0 0.896
11 american_peopl 35
0.0139 0 0.078
0.0211 0 0.887
12 special_interest 14
0.00358 0 0.0249
0.0215 0 0.95
13 half_year 22
0 0 0.0432
0.000796 0 0.956
14 georg_bush 2
0 0 0.00279
0.000199 0 0.997
15 tax_cut 4
0.000199 0 0.0299
0 0 0.97
16 tax_break 17
0 0 0.0416
0 0 0.958
17 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0121
0 0 0.988
18 good_job 11
0.00179 0 0.0183
0 0 0.98
19 wall_street 10
0.000199 0 0.0125
0 0 0.987
20 main_street 8
0.00159 0 0.00657
0 0 0.992
21 poll_show 5
0.0113 0 0.00498
0.00159 0 0.982
22 fifti_year 13
0.00239 0 0.0129
0.0111 0 0.974
23 john_mccain 5
0.000199 0 0.0113
0.00458 0 0.984
24 work_peopl 33
0 0 0.0241
0 0 0.976
25 senat_mccain 3
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
26 bush_tax_cut 9
0 0 0.0113
0 0 0.989
27 same_thing 29
0.00119 0 0.0436
0 0 0.955
28 senat_mccain 18
0 0 0.0171
0 0 0.983
29 hous_crisi 11
0 0 0.0131
0 0 0.987
30 final_decid 5
0.00677 0 0.00557
0 0 0.988
31 senat_mccain 24
0 0 0.0195
0 0 0.98
32 hous_crisi 4
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
33 georg_bush 6
0 0 0.00697
0 0 0.993
34 american_peopl 22
0.046 0 0.239
0 0 0.715
35 week_ago 21
0.0177 0 0.351
0.0113 0 0.62
36 lost___NUM__ 34
0 0 0.417
0 0 0.583
37 __NUM___job 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
38 stimulu_packag 19
0 0 0.00955
0 0 0.99
39 middl_class 8
0.00119 0 0.0165
0 0 0.982
40 econom_downturn 24
0 0 0.00796
0 0 0.992
41 __NUM___centuri 46
0.000796 0 0.00955
0 0 0.99
42 unemploy_insur 8
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
43 spend_monei 33
0 0 0.0101
0 0 0.99
44 hous_market 21
0.000199 0 0.00438
0 0 0.995
45 hous_crisi 7
0 0 0.00498
0 0 0.995
46 econom_problem 9
0 0 0.00935
0 0 0.991
47 face_todai 2
0.000995 0 0.00179
0 0 0.997
48 __MONEY___billion 11
0.000199 0 0.00597
0.000199 0 0.994
49 local_govern 53
0.000199 0.000199 0.0243
0 0 0.975
50 hous_crisi 11
0 0 0.00338
0.000199 0.000199 0.996
51 health_care 21
0.0263 0 0.0525
0.000199 0 0.921
52 cut_back 8
0.00438 0 0.0306
0.0211 0 0.944
53 difficult_time 9
0.00716 0 0.0105
0.0167 0 0.966
54 job_growth 20
0.000398 0 0.965
0.000199 0 0.034
55 highwai_system 18
0.00915 0 0.0545
0.000199 0 0.936
56 middl_class 6
0.00299 0 0.0215
0.00816 0 0.967
57 same_kind 9
0.00438 0 0.03
0.00836 0 0.957
58 __MONEY___billion 17
0 0 0.0635
0 0 0.937
59 ten_year 2
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
60 hous_crisi 20
0.000398 0 0.0119
0 0 0.988
61 __MONEY___billion 6
0 0 0.0503
0 0 0.95
62 green_energi 3
0 0 0.00975
0 0 0.99
63 ten_year 5
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
64 foreign_oil 9
0 0 0.00677
0 0 0.993
65 american_peopl 66
0.714 0 0.147
0 0 0.139
66 white_hous 31
0.165 0 0.049
0.636 0 0.15
67 unit_state 6
0.0649 0 0.0157
0.742 0 0.177
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 1