Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.07.08 originally had 2671 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 81 cue terms and an average lag of 30.2. 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 same_thing 30
0.429 0 0.571
0 0 0
2 fifteen_year 6
0.0342 0.000796 0.0163
0.413 0 0.535
3 unit_state 49
0.223 0 0.206
0.299 0 0.273
4 problem_face 112
0.109 0.0225 0.572
0.0967 0 0.2
5 __NUM___million_peopl 93
0.862 0 0.00159
0.135 0 0.00219
6 peopl_live 1
0.0105 0 0.000398
0.988 0 0.000796
7 border_illeg 14
0.037 0.000199 0.000199
0.962 0 0.000199
8 undocu_worker 7
0.0943 0 0
0.906 0 0
9 __NUM___year 81
0.577 0 0.00856
0.415 0 0
10 public_servic 2
0.0217 0 0
0.978 0 0.000597
11 comprehens_immigr 14
0.0792 0 0
0.921 0 0
12 immigr_reform 0
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
13 __MONEY___million 13
0.654 0.0111 0.117
0.218 0 0
14 tax_cut 2
0.0181 0.000597 0.00517
0.853 0.0109 0.112
15 health_care 10
0.115 0.000199 0.000995
0.867 0.000398 0.0159
16 __NUM___children 2
0.0183 0 0
0.981 0 0.000398
17 __NUM___cent 13
0.00318 0 0.000597
0.996 0 0.000199
18 citi_hall 37
0.245 0 0.000398
0.754 0 0
19 plant_close 46
0.0482 0 0
0.952 0 0
20 bring_peopl 25
0.00179 0 0
0.998 0 0
21 commun_leader 7
0.000597 0 0
0.999 0 0
22 job_train 28
0.00358 0 0.00219
0.994 0 0
23 eighti_year 158
0.0903 0.00458 0.179
0.726 0 0.000398
24 year_ago 0
0.00299 0.000199 0.00358
0.811 0.00398 0.178
25 unit_state 59
0.398 0 0.48
0.0444 0 0.077
26 head_start 54
0.0318 0.000199 0.505
0.0911 0 0.371
27 immigr_enforc 121
0.812 0 0.0828
0.0165 0 0.089
28 comprehens_immigr 41
0.0279 0 0.00139
0.816 0 0.155
29 immigr_reform 0
0.000398 0 0
0.844 0 0.156
30 senat_mccain 9
0.00577 0.0101 0.0752
0.772 0 0.137
31 campaign_trail 74
0.736 0.000199 0.171
0.0382 0 0.0555
32 white_hous 11
0.0289 0 0.0221
0.733 0 0.217
33 comprehens_immigr 59
0.589 0 0.0517
0.349 0 0.0103
34 immigr_reform 0
0.000199 0 0
0.938 0 0.0621
35 top_prioriti 7
0.577 0.000398 0.0145
0.4 0 0.00876
36 undocu_immigr 45
0.214 0.000597 0.000398
0.783 0 0.00159
37 learn_english 34
0.201 0.00239 0.0179
0.778 0.000199 0.00119
38 la_vega 71
0.6 0.00896 0.251
0.133 0.000597 0.00657
39 econom_downturn 43
0.00418 0.0207 0.729
0.0279 0.00418 0.214
40 econom_polici 19
0.000796 0 0.486
0.000199 0.00318 0.51
41 senat_mccain 2
0.000597 0.00199 0.0386
0.000597 0.00318 0.955
42 tax_break 7
0.000199 0.00159 0.418
0 0.00378 0.577
43 big_corpor 2
0 0.000199 0.0137
0 0.00537 0.981
44 tax_cut 29
0.000398 0.0589 0.558
0 0.00418 0.378
45 small_busi 7
0.000199 0.0113 0.09
0 0.0593 0.839
46 busi_owner 0
0 0.000199 0.00716
0 0.0681 0.925
47 tax_break 4
0 0 0.085
0 0.00378 0.911
48 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0225
0 0 0.978
49 good_job 8
0.0306 0.00697 0.0207
0 0 0.942
50 hous_crisi 8
0.0173 0.00577 0.0223
0.0289 0.00697 0.919
51 health_care 42
0.733 0.143 0.0378
0.044 0.0123 0.0302
52 small_busi 4
0.0149 0.0285 0.00557
0.767 0.155 0.0297
53 busi_owner 0
0.00318 0 0.000398
0.781 0.182 0.0334
54 rise_cost 18
0.184 0.000398 0.000398
0.777 0.0366 0.00139
55 health_care 2
0.0306 0.000199 0
0.961 0.00816 0.000199
56 health_care_polici 10
0.0123 0 0
0.988 0 0
57 senat_mccain 3
0.00199 0 0
0.998 0 0
58 health_care 9
0.00378 0 0.000597
0.996 0 0
59 pai_tax 7
0.00239 0.000199 0.00597
0.991 0 0.000597
60 health_care 3
0.00677 0 0
0.991 0.000199 0.00179
61 insur_compani 17
0.00557 0 0
0.994 0 0.000199
62 health_insur 3
0.00119 0 0.000199
0.999 0 0
63 cut_cost 17
0.00517 0 0.00259
0.992 0 0.000199
64 educ_system 54
0.992 0 0
0.00816 0 0
65 earli_childhood 53
0.109 0 0
0.891 0 0
66 childhood_educ 0
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
67 child_left 9
0.00279 0 0.000199
0.997 0 0
68 global_economi 36
0.109 0.000199 0.0205
0.87 0 0.000199
69 american_dream 19
0.783 0 0.0557
0.146 0 0.0153
70 year_ago 118
0.407 0.000199 0.0332
0.554 0 0.00517
71 american_flag 27
0.0376 0 0.00179
0.942 0 0.0181
72 young_girl 28
0.00139 0.000199 0.000398
0.979 0 0.0191
73 year_ago 119
0.138 0.00179 0.161
0.69 0 0.00915
74 health_care 106
0.499 0.00219 0.108
0.36 0 0.0314
75 __NUM___centuri 12
0.0697 0 0.0177
0.799 0.000199 0.113
76 elect_dai 115
0.218 0.409 0.000597
0.372 0.000199 0
77 senat_kerri 3
0.00318 0.00398 0
0.584 0.409 0
78 __NUM___vote 7
0.00139 0.00139 0.00119
0.585 0.411 0
79 small_fraction 5
0.00438 0.0107 0.00498
0.57 0.409 0.00119
80 polit_map 116
0.214 0.0533 0.245
0.284 0.201 0.00358
81 unit_state 56
0.495 0.000398 0.212
0.169 0.00358 0.12
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