Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.04.15.PA originally had 3046 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 129 cue terms and an average lag of 21.2. 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 global_economi 29
0.501 0.000199 0.498
0 0 0
2 american_worker 26
0.0981 0.000796 0.215
0.255 0.000199 0.431
3 coffe_shop 11
0.14 0 0.0223
0.331 0.000597 0.506
4 town_meet 2
0.0193 0 0.00537
0.466 0.000398 0.509
5 same_kind 97
0.888 0 0.0257
0.0842 0 0.00179
6 decad_ago 7
0.122 0 0
0.878 0 0.000398
7 wall_street 8
0.00577 0 0.000398
0.994 0 0
8 commun_organ 7
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
9 south_side 3
0.00199 0 0
0.998 0 0
10 citi_govern 29
0.0199 0 0.0263
0.954 0 0
11 labor_movement 46
0.125 0.000597 0.541
0.313 0 0.0199
12 half_year 51
0.00259 0 0.593
0.00498 0 0.4
13 white_hous 10
0.000199 0 0.0103
0.00338 0 0.986
14 ownership_societi 5
0.000796 0 0.00418
0.00219 0 0.993
15 singl_mom 31
0.968 0 0.00179
0 0 0.0306
16 health_care 4
0.0229 0 0.0221
0.923 0 0.0322
17 hard_work 23
0.117 0 0.173
0.659 0 0.0507
18 labor_relat 55
0.0418 0 0.614
0.134 0 0.21
19 unit_state 42
0.0179 0 0.134
0.0718 0 0.776
20 john_mccain 5
0.00119 0 0.0209
0.0712 0 0.907
21 bush_year 5
0.00458 0 0.00856
0.0693 0 0.918
22 pretti_good 3
0.15 0.000199 0.135
0.0706 0 0.645
23 georg_bush 41
0 0 0.258
0.000199 0 0.742
24 wall_street 6
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
25 john_mccain 1
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
26 bush_tax_cut 5
0 0 0.00677
0 0 0.993
27 bad_idea 40
0 0 0.0318
0 0 0.968
28 republican_nomin 17
0 0 0.00796
0 0 0.992
29 tax_cut 27
0 0 0.0402
0 0 0.96
30 senat_mccain 5
0 0 0.00637
0 0 0.994
31 bush_polici 22
0.00239 0 0.0115
0 0 0.986
32 roll_back 10
0.000199 0 0.943
0.000597 0 0.0561
33 tax_cut 5
0.000199 0 0.0183
0.000597 0 0.981
34 health_care 6
0.00119 0 0.0255
0.000796 0 0.973
35 tax_break 8
0 0 0.0322
0 0 0.968
36 middl_class 20
0.000597 0.000199 0.0973
0 0 0.902
37 tax_cut 1
0 0 0.00478
0 0.000199 0.995
38 work_famili 5
0.000995 0 0.0147
0 0 0.984
39 tax_cut 13
0 0 0.0424
0 0 0.958
40 incom_tax 12
0 0.000597 0.0181
0 0 0.981
41 bush_year 23
0.000398 0 0.0227
0 0 0.977
42 republican_administr 23
0.0187 0 0.0137
0.000398 0 0.967
43 wall_street 5
0.188 0 0.0302
0.0177 0 0.764
44 campaign_contribut 5
0.686 0.000199 0.0269
0.203 0 0.0842
45 ordinari_american 15
0.138 0 0.00179
0.83 0 0.0302
46 spend___MONEY__ 8
0.141 0 0.00776
0.85 0 0.000398
47 __MONEY___million 0
0.00418 0 0
0.99 0 0.00597
48 lobbi_congress 1
0.00896 0 0.000796
0.987 0 0.00318
49 insur_compani 24
0.12 0 0.151
0.729 0 0.000398
50 spend___MONEY___billion 1
0.000398 0 0.00657
0.842 0 0.151
51 health_care 12
0.0123 0 0.169
0.668 0 0.151
52 georg_bush 6
0.000199 0 0.62
0.0651 0 0.315
53 dick_chenei 2
0.000597 0 0.0945
0.00119 0 0.904
54 energi_polici 4
0.00358 0 0.173
0.000796 0 0.823
55 renew_energi 14
0.0374 0.000199 0.0611
0.000995 0 0.9
56 make___MONEY__ 22
0.000199 0.000199 0.981
0 0 0.0183
57 __MONEY___billion 0
0 0 0.00219
0.000199 0 0.998
58 wall_street 22
0 0 0.0605
0 0 0.94
59 main_street 3
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
60 bottom_line 11
0.000398 0 0.045
0 0 0.955
61 american_peopl 9
0.0233 0 0.0306
0.000199 0 0.946
62 ordinari_american 25
0.0406 0 0.0641
0.0195 0 0.876
63 washington_lobbyist 52
0.0388 0 0.248
0.0261 0 0.688
64 american_peopl 27
0.125 0 0.0299
0.0219 0 0.823
65 work_peopl 3
0.0318 0 0.0109
0.13 0 0.827
66 unit_state 9
0.222 0 0.118
0.151 0 0.509
67 union_leader 16
0.113 0 0.19
0.312 0 0.384
68 year_ago 18
0.0569 0 0.0408
0.384 0 0.518
69 independ_contractor 36
0.121 0.000398 0.0669
0.355 0 0.457
70 unit_state 89
0.727 0 0.0848
0.0903 0 0.0981
71 minimum_wage 49
0.294 0.000995 0.0408
0.576 0 0.0884
72 univers_health_care 15
0.378 0 0
0.621 0 0.000199
73 insur_compani 11
0.00756 0 0.000199
0.992 0 0
74 __NUM___million_american 32
0.00915 0 0
0.991 0 0
75 health_insur 4
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0
76 medic_bill 15
0.00478 0 0.00179
0.993 0 0
77 union_member 5
0.00537 0 0.00398
0.989 0 0.00179
78 health_care 10
0.0123 0 0.0205
0.962 0 0.00517
79 twenti_year 83
0.0161 0 0.821
0.14 0 0.0225
80 ten_year 5
0.000398 0 0.0342
0.127 0 0.838
81 unit_state 19
0.0183 0 0.141
0.000199 0 0.84
82 work_american 9
0.000398 0 0.0293
0.00378 0 0.967
83 georg_bush 24
0 0 0.0187
0 0 0.981
84 john_mccain 34
0.00338 0 0.0233
0 0 0.973
85 unit_state 61
0.232 0 0.309
0.00179 0 0.457
86 fair_wage 13
0.0235 0.000199 0.157
0.149 0 0.67
87 georg_bush 29
0.00358 0 0.199
0.0211 0 0.776
88 democrat_nomine 64
0.228 0 0.0418
0.0197 0 0.711
89 white_hous 68
0.0551 0 0.0641
0.204 0 0.677
90 tax_break 122
0 0 0.473
0 0 0.527
91 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0127
0 0 0.987
92 good_job 9
0.0267 0 0.0145
0 0 0.959
93 decent_wage 2
0.00995 0 0.00458
0.0257 0 0.96
94 highwai_system 24
0.0105 0 0.852
0.00318 0 0.135
95 middl_class 6
0.00199 0.000199 0.0261
0.0103 0 0.961
96 same_kind 6
0.00478 0 0.0233
0.0101 0 0.962
97 __MONEY___billion 17
0 0 0.0693
0 0 0.931
98 ten_year 2
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
99 foreign_nation 57
0 0 0.0261
0 0 0.974
100 solar_panel 15
0 0 0.00597
0 0 0.994
101 clean_coal 5
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
102 __MONEY___billion 7
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
103 ten_year 4
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
104 green_energi 3
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
105 american_job 10
0.00756 0 0.0543
0 0 0.938
106 spend___MONEY___billion 45
0.0428 0 0.259
0.00358 0 0.694
107 spend___MONEY___billion 9
0.00199 0 0.0183
0.0456 0 0.934
108 creat_job 9
0.0163 0.000398 0.392
0.000199 0 0.591
109 environment_protect 52
0.0185 0 0.5
0.00139 0 0.48
110 trade_partner 8
0.0163 0 0.0147
0.0185 0 0.95
111 good_thing 11
0.0484 0 0.0149
0.0312 0 0.905
112 union_organ 16
0 0 0.131
0.00199 0 0.867
113 trade_deal 9
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
114 multin_corpor 6
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
115 trade_agreement 27
0 0 0.0159
0 0 0.984
116 unit_state 10
0.000995 0 0.0131
0 0 0.986
117 american_peopl 7
0.000199 0 0.00557
0.000796 0 0.993
118 econom_problem 12
0.000199 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
119 work_american 47
0 0 0.035
0 0 0.965
120 american_worker 33
0.00975 0 0.0416
0 0 0.949
121 twenti_year 6
0.0193 0 0.00378
0.00896 0 0.968
122 year_ago 0
0.0101 0 0.00517
0.0283 0 0.956
123 student_loan 77
0.97 0 0.0243
0.00458 0 0.00139
124 american_dream 53
0.258 0 0.00557
0.734 0 0.00259
125 common_purpos 67
0.279 0 0.000199
0.721 0 0
126 nativ_american 11
0.0189 0 0
0.981 0 0
127 trade_union 115
0.142 0.000199 0.000597
0.857 0 0
128 democrat_nomin 50
0.047 0 0
0.953 0 0
129 gener_elect 6
0.00557 0 0
0.994 0 0
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 25