Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.02.07 originally had 2979 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 50 cue terms and an average lag of 51.0. 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 mardi_gra 18
0.778 0.0119 0.21
0 0 0
2 young_man 50
0.504 0 0.000199
0.495 0 0.00119
3 turn_back 18
0.3 0 0.00259
0.697 0 0
4 american_citi 57
0.24 0 0.0557
0.704 0 0.000398
5 super_bowl 63
0.07 0.000199 0.32
0.56 0 0.0496
6 govern_fail 141
0.0571 0 0.603
0.0308 0 0.309
7 gulf_coast 12
0.0422 0 0.126
0.0691 0 0.763
8 broken_promis 136
0.407 0 0.392
0.0209 0 0.179
9 presid_bush 16
0.0328 0 0.364
0.078 0 0.525
10 red_tape 74
0.134 0 0.686
0.00915 0 0.171
11 __NUM___famili 18
0.0139 0 0.124
0.0356 0 0.827
12 gulf_coast 246
0.0139 0 0.241
0.00139 0 0.743
13 armi_corp 50
0.00498 0 0.0259
0.0119 0 0.957
14 gulf_coast 95
0.0175 0 0.0416
0.0119 0 0.929
15 american_peopl 6
0.0281 0 0.0766
0.0261 0 0.869
16 feder_reserv 76
0.00159 0 0.0907
0.00458 0 0.903
17 american_peopl 29
0.0436 0 0.0241
0.00438 0 0.928
18 fifti_state 26
0.0338 0 0.0392
0.0352 0 0.892
19 local_govern 30
0.00776 0.00119 0.072
0.0255 0 0.894
20 georg_bush 190
0.000796 0 0.212
0 0 0.787
21 feder_monei 8
0.00119 0 0.0181
0 0 0.981
22 red_tape 51
0.00577 0 0.0231
0.000796 0 0.97
23 feder_govern 5
0.0103 0 0.00637
0.00219 0 0.981
24 campaign_manag 27
0.747 0.00517 0.108
0.00876 0 0.131
25 local_economi 10
0.324 0.0344 0.218
0.309 0.00517 0.109
26 tax_incent 66
0.0344 0.0917 0.549
0.0921 0.0388 0.194
27 health_care_system 118
0.856 0 0.0442
0.0854 0 0.0149
28 medic_center 32
0.148 0 0.0836
0.713 0 0.0549
29 crimin_justic_system 29
0.0406 0 0.0105
0.816 0 0.133
30 gulf_coast 66
0.072 0 0.336
0.453 0 0.139
31 class_size 98
0.951 0 0.00896
0.0364 0 0.00398
32 __MONEY___million 24
0.0697 0 0.00716
0.921 0 0.00259
33 school_system 25
0.0454 0 0.00239
0.948 0 0.00418
34 __MONEY___million 43
0.0603 0 0.00816
0.929 0 0.00259
35 stop_talk 63
0.0543 0 0.000199
0.945 0 0.000398
36 colleg_educ 34
0.0157 0 0
0.984 0 0
37 career_ladder 23
0.00617 0 0
0.994 0 0
38 educ_polici 9
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
39 child_left 8
0.00159 0 0
0.998 0 0
40 high_school 62
0.158 0 0.000199
0.842 0 0
41 put_forward 21
0.275 0 0.228
0.496 0 0.000199
42 colleg_educ 30
0.316 0 0.000199
0.683 0 0.000398
43 tax_credit 25
0.147 0.000199 0.00517
0.848 0 0
44 commun_colleg 21
0.299 0 0.000597
0.7 0 0
45 gulf_coast 74
0.0271 0 0.92
0.0517 0 0.000995
46 cost_monei 27
0.0693 0 0.0392
0.0275 0 0.864
47 feder_govern 2
0.00398 0 0.00219
0.0943 0 0.9
48 work_close 49
0.728 0.000597 0.0312
0.0376 0 0.203
49 local_offici 4
0.156 0 0.00577
0.734 0.000199 0.103
50 white_hous 21
0.115 0 0.0601
0.792 0 0.0328
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 364