Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.08.05 originally had 2486 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 125 cue terms and an average lag of 17.2. 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 rise_cost 70
0.258 0.12 0.622
0 0 0
2 foreign_oil 65
0 0 0.589
0.000199 0 0.41
3 ga_price 20
0.000199 0 0.0107
0 0 0.989
4 middl_east 29
0 0 0.00896
0 0 0.991
5 senat_mccain 49
0.000398 0 0.0179
0 0 0.982
6 week_ago 4
0 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
7 foreign_oil 8
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
8 thirti_year 3
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
9 senat_mccain 27
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
10 thirti_year 8
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
11 fuel_effici 21
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
12 tax_credit 7
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
13 renew_sourc 8
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
14 solar_power 7
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
15 wind_power 2
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
16 energi_bill 3
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
17 renew_sourc 13
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
18 senat_mccain 16
0 0.000199 0.00378
0 0 0.996
19 altern_energi 24
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
20 oil_compani 10
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
21 compani_profit 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
22 __MONEY___billion 23
0 0 0.0165
0 0 0.983
23 tax_break 3
0 0 0.0167
0 0 0.983
24 oil_compani 4
0 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
25 __MONEY___billion 5
0.000398 0.000398 0.0275
0 0 0.972
26 unit_state 19
0.0627 0.000199 0.531
0.000398 0 0.406
27 same_amount 10
0.00378 0.00159 0.287
0.0165 0.000199 0.691
28 half_time 33
0.00557 0.000796 0.108
0.00736 0.000398 0.878
29 presid_bush 5
0.000199 0 0.0404
0.00677 0.000199 0.952
30 senat_mccain 3
0 0.000398 0.0943
0.00617 0 0.899
31 oil_compani 4
0.000398 0 0.374
0.00299 0 0.623
32 ga_price 40
0.000199 0 0.332
0 0 0.668
33 offshor_drill 11
0 0 0.00597
0 0 0.994
34 lower_price 4
0.000398 0 0.00438
0 0 0.995
35 senat_mccain 83
0.000597 0.00199 0.0332
0 0 0.964
36 million_dollar 27
0 0.000398 0.0245
0 0.000199 0.975
37 oil_industri 3
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
38 offshor_drill 15
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
39 senat_mccain 15
0 0.000199 0.0507
0 0 0.949
40 oil_compani 4
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
41 senat_mccain 39
0.00259 0.00935 0.258
0 0 0.73
42 oil_compani 57
0.000796 0 0.26
0 0 0.74
43 compani_call 0
0.00498 0.000398 0.0362
0.000398 0 0.958
44 hard_work 4
0.0201 0 0.169
0.00478 0 0.806
45 work_famili 0
0 0 0.0105
0.0197 0 0.97
46 senat_mccain 5
0.000199 0.00179 0.0991
0.00418 0 0.895
47 clean_energi 10
0.00697 0 0.517
0 0 0.476
48 american_peopl 28
0.00179 0 0.0223
0.00259 0 0.973
49 oil_compani 14
0 0 0.0117
0 0 0.988
50 ga_price 44
0.00199 0 0.0199
0 0 0.978
51 elect_presid 43
0.0299 0.0165 0.14
0.000796 0 0.813
52 senat_mccain 3
0.000199 0.000398 0.0209
0.0155 0.0141 0.949
53 tax_break 6
0 0 0.0627
0 0.000199 0.937
54 oil_compani 2
0 0 0.00836
0 0 0.992
55 work_famili 18
0.00239 0.00338 0.0474
0 0 0.947
56 oil_compani 17
0 0 0.0808
0 0 0.919
57 renew_energi 16
0 0 0.0129
0 0 0.987
58 domest_product 8
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
59 natur_ga 4
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
60 oil_compani 4
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
61 __NUM___million 4
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
62 million_acr 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
63 senat_mccain 56
0.000597 0.00159 0.0235
0 0 0.974
64 american_citizen 55
0 0 0.0243
0 0 0.976
65 great_challeng 8
0.000597 0 0.00677
0 0 0.993
66 __NUM___centuri 50
0.00438 0 0.0183
0 0 0.977
67 feder_govern 36
0.000597 0.000199 0.0175
0.000796 0 0.981
68 privat_sector 7
0.000199 0 0.00836
0.000398 0 0.991
69 ten_year 9
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
70 middl_east 12
0 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
71 __MONEY___billion 9
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
72 privat_capit 10
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
73 american_energi 3
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
74 american_job 6
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
75 __NUM___mile 44
0 0 0.0147
0 0 0.985
76 unit_state 37
0.00179 0 0.0199
0 0 0.978
77 __MONEY___billion 14
0 0 0.00796
0 0 0.992
78 tax_credit 4
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
79 auto_compani 2
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
80 tax_credit 20
0.00119 0 0.00597
0 0 0.993
81 american_worker 9
0 0 0.0265
0 0 0.974
82 american_compani 2
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
83 __NUM___centuri 5
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
84 renew_sourc 14
0 0 0.00378
0 0 0.996
85 tax_incent 30
0 0.000199 0.00776
0 0 0.992
86 solar_power 10
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
87 nuclear_power 14
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
88 nuclear_wast 3
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
89 energi_sourc 13
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
90 renew_energi 30
0 0 0.00856
0 0 0.991
91 energi_sourc 0
0 0 0
0 0 1
92 renew_energi 3
0.000199 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
93 manufactur_job 22
0.00119 0 0.348
0 0 0.65
94 fifti_state 17
0.0113 0.000398 0.0295
0.000995 0 0.958
95 wind_energi 4
0.000597 0.000199 0.035
0.00677 0 0.957
96 manufactur_job 1
0 0 0.17
0.000398 0 0.83
97 wind_power 5
0 0 0.00876
0 0 0.991
98 __MONEY___billion 11
0.0322 0.000398 0.00299
0 0 0.964
99 year___NUM__ 3
0.0706 0 0.00338
0.0322 0 0.894
100 save___MONEY__ 13
0.00279 0 0.00398
0.102 0 0.891
101 __MONEY___billion 0
0 0 0.046
0.0591 0 0.895
102 wind_power 17
0 0 0.0631
0 0 0.937
103 american_peopl 13
0.00139 0 0.00378
0 0 0.995
104 energi_consumpt 35
0 0 0.0107
0 0 0.989
105 __MONEY___billion 7
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
106 energi_bill 3
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
107 energi_effici 12
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
108 __MONEY___billion 7
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
109 energi_cost 2
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
110 same_thing 45
0.00119 0 0.0708
0 0 0.928
111 ten_year 6
0 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
112 renew_energi 8
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
113 middl_east 10
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
114 carbon_emiss 18
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
115 american_citizen 55
0.000199 0 0.0167
0 0 0.983
116 __NUM___centuri 33
0.00478 0 0.0121
0 0 0.983
117 good_job 14
0.00219 0 0.00816
0.00299 0 0.987
118 renew_energi 39
0.000199 0 0.0165
0 0 0.983
119 oil_compani 20
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
120 middl_eastern 3
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
121 assembl_line 109
0.00517 0 0.071
0 0 0.924
122 wind_turbin 13
0 0 0.0103
0 0 0.99
123 solar_panel 2
0.000199 0 0.000199
0 0 1
124 american_worker 26
0.0842 0.00458 0.393
0 0 0.518
125 unit_state 22
0.158 0.000199 0.07
0.0758 0.000199 0.696
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