Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.10.20.FL originally had 3237 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 124 cue terms and an average lag of 23.7. 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 elect_dai 9
0.829 0.142 0.0295
0 0 0
2 food_stamp 123
0.505 0.000199 0.000398
0.493 0.000199 0.000597
3 student_loan 5
0.105 0 0.000796
0.894 0.000199 0.000199
4 hard_work 7
0.0289 0 0.000199
0.97 0 0.000597
5 work_hard 20
0.0689 0 0.00219
0.929 0 0
6 glass_ceil 60
0.191 0.00358 0.00159
0.804 0 0
7 campaign_trail 125
0.396 0.00219 0.155
0.445 0.000199 0.00119
8 financi_crisi 64
0.00119 0 0.917
0.000796 0 0.081
9 invest_bank 11
0 0 0.0271
0 0 0.973
10 bank_fail 0
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
11 hous_market 8
0 0 0.00677
0 0 0.993
12 wall_street 12
0 0 0.00856
0 0 0.991
13 ga_price 35
0 0 0.0304
0 0 0.97
14 price_rise 0
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
15 year___NUM__ 80
0.111 0.00179 0.108
0 0 0.779
16 econom_crisi 28
0.00119 0 0.171
0.000398 0 0.827
17 difficult_time 16
0.000398 0 0.0173
0.000398 0 0.982
18 senat_mccain 91
0.000199 0.000796 0.0822
0 0 0.917
19 econom_crisi 13
0.000995 0 0.0221
0 0 0.977
20 quarter_centuri 14
0.00338 0 0.0155
0.000597 0 0.98
21 pretti_clear 35
0.107 0.00716 0.32
0.00219 0 0.564
22 senat_mccain 2
0.0103 0.00159 0.00716
0.108 0.00697 0.866
23 __NUM___time 66
0.307 0 0.54
0.109 0.000199 0.044
24 health_care 43
0.547 0 0.00736
0.408 0 0.037
25 health_insur 12
0.0211 0 0.00239
0.95 0 0.0267
26 insur_market 0
0.000199 0 0.000199
0.971 0 0.0289
27 health_care 47
0.0201 0.00139 0.643
0.31 0 0.0251
28 wall_street 5
0.00159 0.000199 0.335
0.00557 0 0.658
29 main_street 10
0.000796 0 0.0127
0.00517 0 0.981
30 good_idea 8
0.00119 0 0.0127
0.00577 0 0.98
31 treasuri_secretari 8
0.000995 0.000199 0.00935
0.00577 0 0.984
32 unit_state 17
0.384 0 0.27
0.00498 0 0.341
33 washington_lobbyist 38
0.138 0 0.314
0.293 0 0.255
34 special_interest 2
0.00577 0 0.00259
0.431 0 0.561
35 white_hous 12
0.0143 0 0.00756
0.434 0 0.544
36 american_peopl 11
0.0213 0 0.00657
0.442 0 0.531
37 unit_state 6
0.0107 0 0.00697
0.459 0 0.524
38 john_mccain 3
0.000796 0 0.00179
0.468 0 0.53
39 white_hous 15
0.0328 0 0.00577
0.465 0 0.497
40 campaign_manag 15
0.0195 0 0.0123
0.491 0 0.477
41 __MONEY___million 8
0.0663 0.00657 0.859
0.0119 0 0.0567
42 fanni_mae 20
0 0 0.203
0 0 0.797
43 freddi_mac 2
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
44 same_dai 9
0 0 0.00836
0 0 0.992
45 fanni_mae 10
0 0 0.00876
0 0 0.991
46 __NUM___minut 7
0.000398 0 0.0539
0 0 0.946
47 same_dai 7
0.000199 0 0.00796
0 0 0.992
48 fanni_mae 12
0 0 0.0131
0 0 0.987
49 senat_mccain 14
0.00199 0.00438 0.417
0 0 0.577
50 john_mccain 30
0.000995 0 0.456
0.000199 0 0.543
51 mccain_campaign 18
0.000398 0 0.0402
0.000199 0 0.959
52 peopl_live 40
0.433 0.000995 0.34
0 0 0.226
53 unit_state 16
0.0442 0 0.188
0.329 0 0.439
54 econom_crisi 26
0.00279 0 0.505
0.0155 0 0.476
55 wall_street 20
0 0 0.0631
0 0 0.937
56 main_street 4
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
57 rise_price 11
0 0 0.0155
0 0 0.984
58 job_creation 4
0.000597 0.00199 0.0143
0 0 0.983
59 wall_street 40
0.0217 0 0.0559
0 0 0.922
60 __NUM___cent 71
0.582 0.0159 0.0523
0.0153 0 0.335
61 colleg_tuition 84
0.809 0 0.0603
0.119 0.000199 0.0123
62 econom_issu 5
0.0245 0 0.00259
0.902 0 0.0708
63 american_famili 4
0.0342 0.00119 0.00279
0.895 0 0.0667
64 hard_work 21
0.161 0.000199 0.0185
0.772 0.000199 0.0482
65 parti_platform 95
0.282 0.0199 0.101
0.591 0.000398 0.00597
66 suprem_court 29
0.194 0 0.000398
0.803 0.000995 0.00159
67 daili_live 47
0.737 0.000796 0.0211
0.241 0.000199 0.000199
68 stai_home 37
0.159 0 0.000199
0.84 0.000199 0.000398
69 tax_credit 38
0.138 0 0.0125
0.849 0 0.000199
70 health_care 78
0.233 0 0.00179
0.764 0 0.000398
71 health_insur 12
0.00736 0 0
0.992 0 0.000199
72 health_care_cost 14
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
73 same_kind 12
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
74 insur_compani 12
0.00358 0 0.00736
0.989 0 0
75 vice_presid 89
0.998 0 0.000597
0.00139 0 0
76 joe_biden 10
0.00557 0 0
0.994 0 0
77 domest_violenc 11
0.0111 0 0.000597
0.988 0 0
78 john_mccain 15
0.00557 0.000199 0.00557
0.988 0 0.000597
79 joe_biden 33
0.0147 0.000597 0.0109
0.973 0.000199 0.000796
80 creat_job 51
0.0103 0.00557 0.973
0.00299 0 0.00836
81 econom_polici 29
0 0 0.141
0.000398 0 0.858
82 senat_mccain 4
0 0 0.00736
0 0 0.993
83 john_mccain 7
0.0173 0 0.00697
0 0 0.976
84 minimum_wage 7
0.173 0 0.00597
0.0173 0 0.804
85 head_start 8
0.751 0 0.0609
0.186 0 0.00199
86 pell_grant 8
0.0671 0 0
0.933 0 0.000199
87 earli_childhood 4
0.00199 0 0
0.998 0 0
88 childhood_educ 0
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
89 tax_credit 18
0.047 0.000398 0.0354
0.917 0 0
90 middl_class 8
0.0503 0.00736 0.765
0.151 0.000398 0.0255
91 tax_break 33
0.000199 0 0.329
0.000199 0 0.67
92 oil_compani 2
0 0 0.00955
0 0 0.99
93 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0641
0 0 0.936
94 tax_break 7
0 0 0.0527
0 0 0.947
95 work_famili 6
0.00458 0.00139 0.0545
0 0 0.94
96 creat_job 2
0.00398 0.000398 0.0796
0.00418 0.000398 0.911
97 renew_energi 7
0.0135 0.000199 0.0277
0.00697 0.000398 0.951
98 tax_rate 27
0 0.994 0.00537
0 0.000597 0.000199
99 ronald_reagan 9
0 0.00955 0
0 0.99 0
100 tax_increas 15
0 0.0127 0
0 0.987 0
101 tax_relief 15
0 0.0117 0.00259
0 0.986 0
102 class_famili 4
0 0.00259 0.00915
0 0.986 0.00259
103 senat_mccain 2
0.000199 0.00259 0.00318
0 0.982 0.0117
104 rais_tax 17
0 0.0101 0.293
0 0.692 0.00438
105 social_secur 9
0.000199 0 0.709
0 0.00199 0.289
106 john_mccain 3
0 0 0.00776
0.000199 0.000597 0.991
107 social_secur 6
0.000199 0 0.0336
0 0.000398 0.966
108 stock_market 37
0.000199 0 0.23
0 0 0.769
109 nest_egg 12
0.000199 0.00896 0.0277
0 0 0.963
110 senat_mccain 37
0.000398 0.000199 0.0782
0 0.00199 0.919
111 wall_street 10
0.000199 0 0.0257
0 0 0.974
112 life_save 16
0.000199 0 0.0631
0 0 0.937
113 social_secur 16
0.000597 0 0.141
0 0 0.859
114 hard_work 17
0.00617 0 0.0304
0.000398 0 0.963
115 social_secur 7
0 0 0.033
0.00159 0 0.965
116 safeti_net 4
0.00498 0.000199 0.0285
0.00159 0 0.965
117 statu_quo 47
0.34 0.000199 0.0513
0.00159 0 0.607
118 hard_work 56
0.271 0.000199 0.0416
0.268 0 0.419
119 hillari_clinton 56
0.177 0.000398 0.0476
0.418 0 0.357
120 __NUM___million 4
0.361 0.00219 0.0121
0.517 0.000199 0.108
121 glass_ceil 4
0.122 0.000398 0.000398
0.863 0.00159 0.0119
122 great_nation 67
0.11 0.000796 0.00219
0.887 0.000597 0.000199
123 god_bless 162
0.954 0 0
0.0464 0 0
124 god_bless_america 4
0.0159 0 0
0.984 0 0
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