Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.03.14 originally had 2360 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 77 cue terms and an average lag of 26.8. 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 peopl_live 134
0.952 0 0.0476
0 0 0
2 larg_number 8
0.0458 0 0.00418
0.91 0 0.04
3 small_town 83
0.469 0 0.000597
0.53 0 0
4 rural_area 4
0.0281 0 0
0.972 0 0
5 south_side 26
0.043 0 0
0.957 0 0
6 steel_mill 11
0.00358 0 0
0.996 0 0
7 thirti_year 61
0.0388 0 0.0155
0.946 0 0
8 health_care 60
0.311 0 0.186
0.502 0 0.000398
9 senat_mccain 191
0.00557 0.000398 0.882
0.00498 0 0.107
10 work_american 38
0.000597 0 0.0496
0 0 0.95
11 polit_cultur 13
0 0 0.00856
0 0 0.991
12 georg_bush 14
0 0 0.00975
0 0 0.99
13 john_mccain 19
0.000199 0 0.0107
0 0 0.989
14 work_american 58
0 0 0.0406
0 0 0.959
15 econom_agenda 9
0 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
16 global_economi 65
0.00179 0 0.0424
0 0 0.956
17 sit_back 11
0.000199 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
18 health_care 22
0.00478 0 0.0283
0.000199 0 0.967
19 tax_break 25
0 0 0.0291
0 0 0.971
20 ronald_reagan 8
0.000199 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
21 georg_bush 7
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
22 ownership_societi 4
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
23 main_street 85
0.000199 0 0.0665
0 0 0.933
24 wall_street 6
0 0 0.00577
0.000199 0 0.994
25 john_mccain 34
0.000199 0 0.0209
0 0 0.979
26 home_foreclosur 37
0.000199 0 0.0263
0 0 0.974
27 same_thing 43
0.000199 0 0.0593
0 0 0.94
28 bush_tax 7
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
29 tax_break 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
30 john_mccain 22
0 0 0.0145
0 0 0.985
31 trade_deal 14
0 0 0.00796
0 0 0.992
32 american_worker 8
0 0 0.00896
0 0 0.991
33 global_economi 12
0.000597 0 0.00856
0 0 0.991
34 social_secur 16
0 0 0.0147
0 0 0.985
35 stock_market 12
0 0 0.0103
0 0 0.99
36 georg_bush 13
0 0 0.00915
0 0 0.991
37 health_insur 11
0.000597 0 0.0726
0 0 0.927
38 work_american 2
0.000199 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
39 rise_cost 7
0.00259 0 0.00358
0.000199 0 0.994
40 colleg_tuition 2
0.000995 0 0.000796
0.00279 0 0.995
41 american_peopl 43
0.000398 0 0.0346
0 0 0.965
42 john_mccain 4
0 0 0.00438
0.000199 0 0.995
43 georg_bush 4
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
44 american_peopl 55
0.827 0 0.0165
0 0 0.156
45 small_town 8
0.217 0 0
0.782 0 0.000597
46 big_citi 2
0.0153 0 0
0.985 0 0
47 polit_gain 49
0.215 0 0.000398
0.785 0 0
48 tax_dollar 73
0.261 0 0.0322
0.707 0 0.000199
49 special_interest 10
0.102 0 0.00876
0.861 0 0.0281
50 health_care 40
0.317 0.000199 0.228
0.446 0 0.00856
51 insur_compani 27
0.0287 0 0.398
0.375 0 0.198
52 hous_crisi 24
0.00299 0.00159 0.352
0.09 0 0.553
53 tax_relief 21
0.000597 0.00199 0.156
0.000199 0.00159 0.84
54 class_famili 11
0.000597 0 0.126
0.000199 0.00179 0.871
55 global_economi 17
0.000796 0 0.0213
0.000597 0 0.977
56 work_american 3
0 0 0.00458
0.000597 0 0.995
57 tax_break 22
0.00398 0 0.147
0 0 0.849
58 good_job 16
0.33 0.000199 0.0888
0.00378 0 0.578
59 renew_energi 12
0.251 0 0.0969
0.306 0 0.347
60 public_educ 55
0.576 0 0.000199
0.424 0 0
61 educ_system 0
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
62 earli_childhood 16
0.00537 0 0
0.995 0 0
63 childhood_educ 0
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
64 final_make 2
0.00179 0 0
0.998 0 0
65 stop_talk 12
0.0107 0 0.00617
0.983 0 0
66 social_secur 43
0.0665 0 0.834
0.0933 0 0.00597
67 american_dream 78
0.806 0 0.0237
0.0474 0 0.123
68 american_peopl 39
0.215 0 0.0163
0.692 0 0.0768
69 long_dai 61
0.264 0 0
0.736 0 0
70 town_hall_meet 23
0.046 0 0.000199
0.954 0 0
71 senat_clinton 4
0.00716 0 0.0205
0.972 0 0.000199
72 senat_mccain 3
0.0163 0.000796 0.0237
0.939 0 0.0201
73 singl_mother 37
0.139 0.000199 0.00119
0.849 0.000597 0.00955
74 gi_bill 21
0.691 0 0
0.309 0 0
75 food_stamp 15
0.222 0 0.000398
0.777 0 0
76 year_ago 55
0.15 0 0.0189
0.831 0 0.000199
77 same_stori 14
0.169 0 0.000398
0.829 0 0.00179
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 79