Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.05.09 originally had 1230 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 77 cue terms and an average lag of 13.7. 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 unit_state 20
0.965 0 0.0352
0 0 0
2 pai_attent 11
0.0687 0 0.00458
0.905 0 0.0217
3 great_countri 28
0.156 0 0.00119
0.841 0 0.00159
4 big_citi 17
0.0882 0 0
0.912 0 0
5 small_town 2
0.0121 0 0
0.988 0 0
6 health_care 34
0.148 0 0.00995
0.842 0 0
7 american_dream 23
0.16 0 0.00259
0.836 0 0.00179
8 sustain_econom 30
0.158 0 0.0101
0.831 0 0.000199
9 econom_growth 0
0.00677 0 0.000199
0.983 0 0.00975
10 world_war_ii 2
0.0251 0 0.000199
0.974 0 0.000995
11 work_harder 8
0.0448 0 0.0133
0.941 0 0.000597
12 work_peopl 67
0.0306 0 0.887
0.07 0 0.0119
13 main_street 30
0.000398 0 0.121
0.00398 0 0.874
14 special_interest 7
0 0 0.0101
0.00119 0 0.989
15 wall_street 2
0.000199 0 0.00378
0.000199 0 0.996
16 john_mccain 26
0.000199 0 0.037
0 0 0.963
17 georg_bush 34
0 0 0.0231
0 0 0.977
18 senat_mccain 18
0 0 0.0115
0 0 0.988
19 georg_bush 9
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
20 democrat_nomine 24
0.0229 0 0.0123
0 0 0.965
21 john_mccain 9
0 0 0.0275
0.00159 0 0.971
22 georg_bush 4
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
23 bush_tax_cut 0
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
24 work_peopl 15
0 0 0.0103
0 0 0.99
25 senat_mccain 3
0 0 0.00378
0 0 0.996
26 bush_tax_cut 14
0 0 0.0123
0 0 0.988
27 republican_nomine 7
0.000199 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
28 tax_cut 12
0 0 0.0195
0 0 0.98
29 work_peopl 15
0.000199 0 0.0103
0 0 0.989
30 fiscal_respons 9
0 0 0.00597
0 0 0.994
31 __MONEY___billion 4
0.000199 0.000199 0.0131
0 0 0.986
32 tax_cut 2
0.000199 0 0.0689
0 0.000199 0.931
33 middl_class 24
0.0179 0 0.306
0.000199 0 0.676
34 tax_code 23
0.000199 0 0.0822
0.000597 0 0.917
35 tax_break 15
0 0 0.0563
0 0 0.944
36 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0199
0 0 0.98
37 tax_cut 5
0 0 0.0302
0 0 0.97
38 middl_class 5
0.00358 0 0.0219
0 0 0.975
39 class_american 0
0.000199 0 0.00219
0.00358 0 0.994
40 tax_credit 11
0.00358 0 0.00975
0.00318 0 0.983
41 work_famili 11
0.000995 0.00139 0.0322
0.00139 0 0.964
42 cut_tax 3
0 0 0.0338
0 0.00139 0.965
43 __NUM___million_american 2
0.000995 0 0.00219
0 0.00139 0.995
44 rise_cost 8
0.000199 0 0.00537
0.000796 0.00139 0.992
45 main_street 13
0 0 0.00935
0.000199 0 0.99
46 health_care 6
0 0 0.00736
0 0 0.993
47 john_mccain 1
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
48 georg_bush 5
0 0 0.00478
0 0 0.995
49 bush_approach 0
0.00856 0 0.00279
0 0 0.989
50 insur_compani 14
0.977 0 0.0143
0.00836 0 0.000199
51 rise_cost 35
0.0283 0 0.000398
0.971 0 0.000597
52 health_care 10
0.00338 0 0.000199
0.996 0 0.000199
53 final_make 12
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
54 health_care 1
0 0 0
1 0 0
55 insur_compani 14
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
56 drug_compani 3
0.00179 0 0
0.998 0 0
57 same_kind 26
0.0159 0 0.109
0.875 0 0
58 ga_price 14
0.00279 0 0.885
0.00896 0 0.103
59 john_mccain 1
0 0 0.00139
0.0115 0 0.987
60 oil_compani 53
0 0 0.0352
0 0 0.965
61 ga_price 11
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
62 long_term 3
0.00299 0 0.0396
0 0 0.957
63 american_peopl 16
0.000398 0 0.00975
0.00159 0 0.988
64 ga_price 9
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
65 fuel_effici 2
0 0 0
0 0 1
66 altern_energi 7
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
67 green_job 13
0.000398 0 0.00418
0 0 0.995
68 john_mccain 28
0.00239 0 0.428
0 0 0.569
69 georg_bush 4
0 0 0.0346
0 0 0.965
70 bush_war 0
0.000398 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
71 green_job 56
0.000398 0 0.46
0 0 0.54
72 renew_energi 7
0.000199 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
73 ga_price 10
0.000796 0 0.00498
0.000199 0 0.994
74 john_mccain 27
0.0271 0 0.806
0.000398 0 0.167
75 american_peopl 18
0.107 0 0.0496
0.0181 0 0.825
76 work_peopl 8
0.0525 0 0.0241
0.111 0 0.812
77 unit_state 56
0.424 0 0.111
0.113 0 0.352
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 1