Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.09.27 originally had 3014 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 143 cue terms and an average lag of 19.0. 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 wall_street 18
0.00139 0 0.999
0 0 0
2 financi_crisi 9
0 0 0.0249
0.000398 0 0.975
3 great_depress 10
0.000398 0 0.0147
0 0 0.985
4 __NUM___worker 59
0 0 0.0665
0 0 0.934
5 credit_card 43
0.000398 0 0.251
0 0 0.749
6 health_care 48
0.041 0.00597 0.547
0.000199 0 0.406
7 john_mccain 9
0.00159 0.00318 0.0844
0.0201 0.00418 0.887
8 senat_mccain 45
0.00179 0.113 0.0631
0.00736 0.00697 0.808
9 middl_class 6
0.00677 0.0185 0.211
0.000199 0.115 0.649
10 class_famili 0
0.000199 0.000796 0.00736
0.00557 0.132 0.854
11 north_carolina 8
0.00179 0.00438 0.00955
0.00537 0.132 0.847
12 __MONEY___billion 11
0.000199 0.00139 0.0217
0.00159 0.127 0.848
13 tax_cut 2
0 0.000597 0.0125
0.00119 0.124 0.861
14 health_care 62
0.0484 0.00199 0.145
0.000597 0.0111 0.793
15 senat_mccain 15
0.00179 0 0.0322
0.0388 0.00378 0.923
16 spend___MONEY___billion 10
0.000995 0.000199 0.0117
0.0398 0 0.947
17 good_job 24
0.00915 0.00139 0.0406
0.0261 0 0.923
18 john_mccain 25
0.00219 0.000199 0.0386
0.0227 0.000597 0.936
19 middl_class 24
0.00736 0.00199 0.437
0.000398 0 0.553
20 senat_mccain 8
0.000199 0.000597 0.0414
0.000398 0.00119 0.956
21 wall_street 13
0.000995 0 0.0742
0 0 0.925
22 main_street 2
0.00557 0 0.00438
0.000995 0 0.989
23 long_time 2
0.0587 0 0.00139
0.00657 0 0.933
24 time_ago 0
0.00119 0 0.000796
0.0653 0 0.933
25 north_carolina 56
0.183 0.0386 0.201
0.0549 0 0.522
26 tax_cut 15
0.000199 0.000995 0.424
0.00358 0.00876 0.562
27 wall_street 6
0.000398 0 0.0408
0.00119 0 0.958
28 main_street 10
0.00597 0 0.0165
0.00139 0 0.976
29 work_peopl 20
0.194 0 0.0561
0.00677 0 0.743
30 unit_state 10
0.238 0.000199 0.0432
0.193 0 0.526
31 middl_class 67
0.514 0.000398 0.151
0.3 0.000199 0.0348
32 singl_dai 2
0.0237 0 0.00398
0.805 0 0.168
33 unit_state 13
0.0324 0 0.109
0.698 0 0.16
34 difficult_time 40
0.0101 0 0.691
0.0665 0 0.232
35 wall_street 59
0.00338 0 0.156
0.00577 0 0.835
36 factori_worker 30
0.0153 0 0.127
0.00577 0 0.852
37 financi_system 12
0 0 0.0422
0 0 0.958
38 life_save 16
0 0 0.0175
0 0 0.982
39 econom_secur 4
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
40 american_peopl 30
0.00119 0 0.0261
0 0 0.973
41 __MONEY___billion 9
0.000199 0.000199 0.0101
0 0 0.989
42 wall_street 17
0 0 0.0173
0 0 0.983
43 american_peopl 11
0.000597 0 0.00736
0 0 0.992
44 tax_dollar 23
0.00119 0 0.0187
0 0 0.98
45 american_taxpay 53
0 0 0.0448
0 0 0.955
46 wall_street 15
0 0 0.0141
0 0 0.986
47 monei_back 10
0 0 0.00836
0 0 0.992
48 wall_street 14
0.000199 0 0.0111
0 0 0.989
49 econom_stimulu 34
0 0 0.0287
0 0 0.971
50 stimulu_plan 0
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
51 work_famili 2
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
52 ga_price 13
0 0 0.00836
0 0 0.992
53 million_job 4
0 0.000199 0.00418
0 0 0.996
54 budget_cut 14
0 0 0.0125
0 0 0.987
55 tax_increas 2
0 0.000398 0.00179
0 0 0.998
56 american_peopl 10
0.000995 0 0.00756
0 0 0.991
57 wall_street 11
0.000199 0 0.0153
0 0 0.984
58 welfar_program 63
0 0 0.0633
0 0 0.937
59 wall_street 2
0.000199 0 0.0513
0 0 0.948
60 senat_mccain 6
0 0.000398 0.293
0 0 0.707
61 john_mccain 10
0.000597 0 0.213
0 0 0.786
62 wall_street 34
0.00279 0 0.153
0 0 0.844
63 corpor_lobbyist 27
0 0 0.248
0.000199 0 0.752
64 work_dai 24
0.000199 0 0.0183
0 0 0.981
65 consum_protect 107
0.0462 0 0.138
0 0 0.816
66 unit_state 39
0.503 0 0.0567
0.0386 0 0.402
67 american_peopl 6
0.0356 0 0.00716
0.529 0 0.429
68 pearl_harbor 116
0.604 0.000199 0.00438
0.389 0 0.00219
69 gi_bill 23
0.176 0 0
0.824 0 0
70 food_stamp 46
0.316 0 0
0.684 0 0
71 south_side 40
0.0151 0 0
0.985 0 0
72 decad_ago 11
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
73 plant_close 5
0.000597 0 0
0.999 0 0
74 unit_state 36
0.0237 0.000199 0.976
0.000398 0 0
75 senat_mccain 2
0.000199 0.000597 0.0304
0.00279 0 0.966
76 wall_street 8
0.000199 0 0.0299
0 0 0.97
77 main_street 11
0 0 0.0131
0 0 0.987
78 year_ago 4
0.000199 0 0.00657
0 0 0.993
79 introduc_legisl 3
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
80 year_ago 15
0.000199 0 0.0203
0 0 0.98
81 treasuri_secretari 6
0 0 0.00498
0 0 0.995
82 fed_chairman 3
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
83 subprim_mortgag 12
0 0 0.00697
0 0 0.993
84 john_mccain 10
0 0 0.00796
0 0 0.992
85 __NUM___centuri 16
0.000199 0 0.0105
0 0 0.989
86 financi_market 13
0 0 0.00955
0 0 0.99
87 free_market 5
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
88 america_great 6
0.000398 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
89 american_economi 42
0 0 0.0297
0 0 0.97
90 larg_part 4
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
91 invis_hand 7
0.000199 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
92 unit_state 36
0.0708 0 0.809
0.000199 0 0.12
93 tax_code 6
0.000597 0.00398 0.208
0.00657 0 0.781
94 american_worker 12
0 0.000597 0.0774
0 0.00259 0.919
95 small_busi 2
0 0.000796 0.0197
0 0.00318 0.976
96 tax_break 8
0 0 0.0404
0 0 0.96
97 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0215
0 0 0.979
98 good_job 12
0.0589 0.0884 0.031
0.000199 0.000199 0.821
99 capit_gain 34
0 0.912 0
0 0.0878 0
100 gain_tax 0
0 0.00119 0
0 0.999 0
101 small_busi 2
0 0.000995 0
0 0.999 0
102 cut_tax 27
0 0.0179 0.00119
0 0.981 0
103 work_famili 10
0 0.00716 0.000796
0 0.991 0.000796
104 tax_rate 15
0 0.00995 0.000199
0 0.99 0.000199
105 ronald_reagan 9
0 0.00637 0
0 0.994 0
106 tax_increas 15
0 0.00677 0
0 0.993 0
107 tax_relief 12
0 0.00736 0.000199
0 0.992 0
108 class_famili 4
0 0.00358 0.00159
0 0.994 0.000398
109 senat_mccain 2
0 0.00139 0.000199
0 0.996 0.00199
110 rais_tax 17
0.000398 0.0115 0.0336
0 0.954 0.000199
111 health_care 16
0.645 0.00219 0.117
0.00119 0.213 0.0221
112 same_kind 27
0.121 0 0.159
0.613 0.000796 0.107
113 insur_compani 13
0.00299 0 0.0689
0.679 0 0.249
114 energi_economi 25
0 0 0.717
0.000199 0 0.283
115 natur_ga 4
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
116 clean_coal 5
0 0 0.000995
0 0 0.999
117 nuclear_power 9
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
118 auto_compani 4
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
119 american_peopl 27
0.000398 0 0.00756
0 0 0.992
120 __NUM___billion 9
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
121 billion_dollar 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
122 renew_sourc 8
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
123 wind_power 4
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
124 solar_power 2
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
125 moral_oblig 37
0.998 0 0.00119
0 0 0.00119
126 global_economi 21
0.00896 0 0
0.991 0 0
127 higher_standard 27
0.00458 0 0
0.995 0 0
128 young_american 12
0.00279 0 0
0.997 0 0
129 colleg_educ 21
0.0346 0 0.000995
0.964 0 0
130 american_economi 20
0.000398 0.00517 0.969
0.0249 0 0.000995
131 fiscal_respons 37
0 0 0.0615
0 0 0.939
132 special_interest 19
0.00159 0 0.0169
0 0 0.981
133 wall_street 33
0.000199 0 0.0316
0 0 0.968
134 main_street 3
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
135 financi_market 65
0 0 0.0527
0 0 0.947
136 world_greatest 65
0.000597 0 0.0645
0 0 0.935
137 creat_job 10
0.00239 0.000398 0.0501
0 0 0.947
138 main_street 70
0.000199 0 0.0826
0 0 0.917
139 wall_street 2
0 0 0.00697
0 0 0.993
140 tax_relief 5
0 0.0362 0.0316
0 0 0.932
141 middl_class 3
0.205 0.00418 0.104
0 0.0328 0.654
142 health_care 10
0.16 0.00498 0.042
0.196 0.0297 0.567
143 north_carolina 50
0.392 0.0416 0.0828
0.282 0.0239 0.178
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