Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.04.14.PA originally had 2360 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 77 cue terms and an average lag of 26.8. 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 peopl_live 134
0.947 0.000199 0.0525
0 0 0
2 larg_number 8
0.0496 0 0.00318
0.905 0 0.0424
3 small_town 83
0.486 0 0
0.514 0 0
4 rural_area 4
0.0253 0 0
0.975 0 0
5 south_side 26
0.0426 0 0
0.957 0 0
6 steel_mill 11
0.00458 0 0.000199
0.995 0 0
7 thirti_year 61
0.0378 0 0.0147
0.947 0 0.000199
8 health_care 60
0.297 0.000398 0.194
0.508 0 0.00119
9 senat_mccain 191
0.00577 0.000398 0.874
0.00318 0 0.116
10 work_american 38
0.000199 0 0.0482
0 0 0.952
11 polit_cultur 13
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
12 georg_bush 14
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
13 john_mccain 19
0 0 0.0131
0 0 0.987
14 work_american 58
0 0 0.0434
0 0 0.957
15 econom_agenda 9
0.000199 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
16 global_economi 65
0.00279 0 0.0478
0 0 0.949
17 sit_back 11
0 0 0.00836
0.000199 0 0.991
18 health_care 22
0.00697 0 0.032
0.000199 0 0.961
19 tax_break 25
0 0 0.0368
0 0 0.963
20 ronald_reagan 8
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
21 georg_bush 7
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
22 ownership_societi 4
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
23 main_street 85
0.000199 0 0.0619
0 0 0.938
24 wall_street 6
0.000199 0 0.00697
0 0 0.993
25 john_mccain 34
0.000199 0 0.0205
0 0 0.979
26 home_foreclosur 37
0.000199 0 0.0231
0 0 0.977
27 same_thing 43
0.000796 0 0.0557
0 0 0.943
28 bush_tax 7
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
29 tax_break 0
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
30 john_mccain 22
0.000199 0 0.0137
0 0 0.986
31 trade_deal 14
0 0 0.00935
0 0 0.991
32 american_worker 8
0 0 0.0103
0 0 0.99
33 global_economi 12
0 0 0.00697
0 0 0.993
34 social_secur 16
0 0 0.0169
0 0 0.983
35 stock_market 12
0 0 0.0141
0 0 0.986
36 georg_bush 13
0 0 0.00915
0 0 0.991
37 health_insur 11
0.000199 0 0.0744
0 0 0.925
38 work_american 2
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
39 rise_cost 7
0.000995 0 0.00537
0 0 0.994
40 colleg_tuition 2
0.00139 0 0.00119
0.000796 0 0.997
41 american_peopl 43
0.000597 0 0.0312
0.000199 0 0.968
42 john_mccain 4
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
43 georg_bush 4
0.000398 0 0.00378
0 0 0.996
44 american_peopl 55
0.82 0 0.0197
0 0 0.16
45 small_town 8
0.221 0 0.000199
0.779 0 0.000597
46 big_citi 2
0.0159 0 0
0.984 0 0
47 polit_gain 49
0.221 0 0.000995
0.778 0 0
48 tax_dollar 73
0.255 0 0.0316
0.713 0 0.000398
49 special_interest 10
0.0953 0 0.00776
0.87 0 0.0271
50 health_care 40
0.304 0 0.23
0.454 0 0.0109
51 insur_compani 27
0.0308 0 0.42
0.347 0 0.203
52 hous_crisi 24
0.00199 0 0.337
0.088 0 0.573
53 tax_relief 21
0.000398 0 0.154
0 0 0.846
54 class_famili 11
0.00119 0 0.115
0.000199 0 0.883
55 global_economi 17
0.00199 0 0.0191
0 0 0.979
56 work_american 3
0.000199 0 0.00697
0.000796 0 0.992
57 tax_break 22
0.00338 0 0.142
0 0 0.855
58 good_job 16
0.323 0 0.0866
0.00279 0 0.587
59 renew_energi 12
0.257 0 0.0949
0.301 0 0.347
60 public_educ 55
0.579 0 0
0.421 0 0
61 educ_system 0
0.000597 0 0
0.999 0 0
62 earli_childhood 16
0.00537 0 0
0.995 0 0
63 childhood_educ 0
0 0 0
1 0 0
64 final_make 2
0.000597 0 0
0.999 0 0
65 stop_talk 12
0.0101 0 0.00915
0.981 0 0
66 social_secur 43
0.0661 0.000199 0.838
0.0876 0 0.00816
67 american_dream 78
0.814 0 0.0249
0.0424 0 0.119
68 american_peopl 39
0.214 0 0.0177
0.695 0 0.0732
69 long_dai 61
0.271 0 0.000199
0.729 0 0
70 town_hall_meet 23
0.0468 0 0.000199
0.953 0 0
71 senat_clinton 4
0.00796 0 0.0103
0.981 0 0.000199
72 senat_mccain 3
0.0195 0.00139 0.0265
0.942 0 0.0105
73 singl_mother 37
0.138 0.000597 0.00259
0.848 0.000995 0.00995
74 gi_bill 21
0.684 0 0
0.316 0 0
75 food_stamp 15
0.234 0 0.000199
0.766 0 0
76 year_ago 55
0.141 0 0.0157
0.844 0 0
77 same_stori 14
0.163 0 0.000597
0.835 0 0.00139
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