Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.09.19 originally had 1335 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 52 cue terms and an average lag of 22.8. 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 financi_crise 8
0.775 0.032 0.193
0 0 0
2 nation_histori 3
0.00597 0.000398 0.00776
0.767 0.03 0.189
3 wall_street 38
0.00836 0 0.91
0.000995 0 0.0808
4 global_economi 10
0.00259 0 0.0193
0.00736 0 0.971
5 mortgag_payment 14
0 0 0.0428
0 0 0.957
6 feder_reserv 26
0 0 0.0149
0 0 0.985
7 life_save 17
0 0 0.0157
0 0 0.984
8 recent_year 24
0 0 0.0171
0 0 0.983
9 financi_system 38
0 0 0.032
0 0 0.968
10 feder_reserv 12
0 0 0.0117
0 0 0.988
11 work_american 79
0.00299 0.000796 0.131
0 0 0.865
12 basic_principl 39
0.0131 0 0.0509
0.000398 0 0.936
13 wall_street 20
0.000398 0 0.0346
0.000796 0 0.964
14 main_street 5
0.000597 0 0.00537
0.00119 0 0.993
15 biggest_bank 21
0.000398 0.000995 0.889
0 0 0.11
16 wall_street 46
0.000796 0 0.169
0 0 0.83
17 financi_institut 30
0 0.000199 0.0412
0 0 0.959
18 credit_crunch 4
0 0.00876 0.00338
0 0.000199 0.988
19 small_busi 2
0.0876 0.634 0.213
0 0.00896 0.0565
20 busi_owner 0
0.00736 0.00139 0.00219
0.0876 0.638 0.263
21 big_citi 9
0.727 0 0.0231
0.0953 0.0368 0.117
22 small_town 2
0.0121 0 0.149
0.695 0.00119 0.142
23 american_taxpay 3
0 0.000199 0.692
0.0109 0 0.297
24 wall_street 44
0 0 0.122
0.000199 0 0.878
25 senat_mccain 4
0 0 0.0245
0 0 0.976
26 presid_bush 2
0.000796 0 0.0227
0 0 0.977
27 econom_plan 12
0 0 0.794
0 0 0.206
28 work_famili 2
0 0.000398 0.0163
0 0 0.983
29 food_price 13
0 0 0.0603
0 0 0.94
30 job_creation 3
0 0.00119 0.00358
0 0 0.995
31 budget_cut 15
0 0.000796 0.00896
0 0.00119 0.989
32 tax_increas 2
0 0.0121 0.0382
0 0.00179 0.948
33 auto_industri 15
0.000199 0 0.955
0 0 0.0444
34 john_mccain 1
0 0 0.00776
0 0 0.992
35 econom_agenda 10
0.000597 0 0.0143
0 0 0.985
36 emerg_plan 31
0.000398 0.0227 0.626
0 0 0.351
37 financi_system 91
0 0 0.375
0 0.000597 0.624
38 american_economi 22
0.00219 0.0273 0.0209
0 0.000597 0.949
39 american_famili 23
0.226 0.101 0.35
0.00219 0.0257 0.296
40 financi_institut 18
0.000398 0.000199 0.391
0.00836 0.0129 0.587
41 privat_sector 16
0.00995 0 0.445
0.00358 0.000597 0.541
42 unit_state 52
0.0191 0 0.203
0.00199 0 0.776
43 credit_market 8
0.000597 0 0.0418
0.00716 0 0.95
44 wall_street 54
0.00716 0 0.376
0.000199 0 0.617
45 consum_protect 17
0.0424 0 0.331
0.00498 0 0.622
46 american_peopl 35
0.0876 0 0.155
0.0334 0 0.724
47 unit_state 31
0.0599 0 0.246
0.0768 0 0.618
48 financi_regul 21
0.00537 0.000199 0.196
0.0444 0 0.754
49 financi_system 14
0 0.000199 0.0625
0.000398 0 0.937
50 feder_reserv 68
0 0 0.0599
0 0 0.94
51 retir_save 74
0 0.00179 0.0627
0 0 0.936
52 difficult_time 49
0.00776 0.000199 0.0414
0 0.000199 0.95
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