Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.04.02 originally had 2717 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 138 cue terms and an average lag of 17.5. 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 time_worker 49
0.986 0 0.0137
0 0 0
2 year_ago 15
0.242 0 0.0183
0.732 0 0.00836
3 trade_union 38
0.622 0.000199 0.000995
0.375 0 0.00259
4 union_movement 0
0.00338 0 0.000199
0.993 0.000199 0.00358
5 found_father 40
0.0575 0 0.000199
0.941 0 0.00159
6 organ_labor 2
0.00358 0 0.00836
0.986 0 0.00179
7 higher_wage 32
0.293 0 0.22
0.485 0 0.00219
8 __NUM___centuri 16
0.0344 0 0.458
0.296 0 0.212
9 main_street 9
0.00259 0 0.331
0.0143 0 0.652
10 wall_street 4
0.000398 0 0.00915
0.0115 0 0.979
11 ordinari_american 54
0.0267 0 0.0951
0.00697 0 0.871
12 work_famili 35
0.00418 0.000398 0.0919
0.0123 0 0.891
13 main_street 27
0.000995 0 0.0697
0.000398 0 0.929
14 wall_street 7
0.00119 0 0.106
0.000597 0 0.892
15 tax_cut 8
0.00259 0.000398 0.522
0 0 0.475
16 trade_deal 28
0.000398 0 0.0494
0 0 0.95
17 labor_relat 21
0.00517 0 0.0121
0.000199 0 0.982
18 john_mccain 8
0 0 0.00756
0.000796 0 0.992
19 week_ago 4
0.000398 0 0.00478
0.000398 0 0.994
20 bush_polici 30
0 0 0.0197
0 0 0.98
21 american_dream 5
0.000597 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
22 georg_bush 9
0 0 0.00637
0 0 0.994
23 senat_mccain 2
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
24 tax_cut 5
0 0 0.00896
0 0 0.991
25 trade_agreement 7
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
26 protect_american 4
0 0 0.0135
0 0 0.986
27 american_worker 0
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
28 hous_crisi 5
0 0 0.00378
0 0 0.996
29 special_interest 22
0.00199 0 0.0123
0 0 0.986
30 white_hous 26
0.00179 0 0.0155
0.00139 0 0.981
31 bush_polici 27
0 0 0.0177
0 0 0.982
32 john_mccain 5
0.000199 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
33 republican_administr 45
0.0207 0 0.0285
0.000199 0 0.951
34 wall_street 14
0.184 0 0.0498
0.0175 0 0.748
35 spend___MONEY__ 13
0.763 0 0.0263
0.193 0 0.0173
36 __MONEY___million 0
0.0143 0 0.000199
0.955 0 0.0308
37 lobbi_congress 1
0.0155 0 0
0.965 0 0.0191
38 insur_compani 24
0.267 0 0.000398
0.733 0 0.000199
39 spend___MONEY___billion 1
0.000597 0 0
0.999 0 0.000199
40 health_care 10
0.00338 0 0.000597
0.996 0 0
41 prescript_drug 12
0.00358 0 0.00199
0.994 0 0.000597
42 big_oil 9
0.000796 0 0.445
0.552 0 0.00259
43 oil_compani 0
0.000398 0 0.0167
0.536 0 0.447
44 hous_crisi 76
0.0219 0 0.581
0.00537 0 0.391
45 face_todai 2
0.0119 0 0.00338
0.0211 0 0.964
46 month_ago 13
0.0786 0 0.0494
0.0304 0 0.842
47 __NUM___million 8
0.0153 0.00199 0.476
0.0245 0 0.482
48 million_dollar 0
0.000199 0 0.0183
0.0328 0.00199 0.947
49 bad_behavior 24
0.0141 0 0.415
0.00597 0.000597 0.564
50 special_interest 17
0.0127 0 0.28
0.00438 0 0.703
51 plai_field 4
0.000597 0 0.0446
0.00697 0 0.948
52 work_american 7
0.000796 0 0.0364
0.00378 0 0.959
53 work_peopl 36
0.0456 0 0.0488
0.000398 0 0.905
54 same_time 4
0.0219 0 0.00537
0.0444 0 0.928
55 corpor_lobbyist 9
0 0 0.0691
0.00378 0 0.927
56 ordinari_american 47
0.0466 0 0.0318
0.00259 0 0.919
57 statu_quo 11
0.0155 0 0.0101
0.0414 0 0.933
58 washington_lobbyist 53
0.0402 0 0.0462
0.0334 0 0.88
59 american_peopl 25
0.539 0 0.0185
0.0342 0 0.408
60 unit_state 6
0.213 0 0.00816
0.536 0 0.243
61 work_famili 15
0.226 0.000597 0.00259
0.661 0 0.109
62 decad_ago 10
0.127 0 0
0.872 0 0.000199
63 commun_organ 5
0.00239 0 0
0.998 0 0
64 job_train 3
0.00199 0 0
0.998 0 0
65 plant_close 13
0.00617 0 0.000199
0.994 0 0
66 labor_union 82
0.576 0.00239 0.238
0.183 0 0.000199
67 work_peopl 16
0.298 0 0.0802
0.46 0 0.162
68 decent_wage 34
0.274 0 0.00736
0.632 0 0.0868
69 univers_health_care 15
0.179 0 0
0.821 0 0
70 insur_compani 12
0.0143 0 0
0.986 0 0
71 final_make 15
0.00418 0 0
0.996 0 0
72 health_care 1
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0
73 young_woman 15
0.00617 0 0
0.994 0 0
74 medic_bill 35
0.0105 0 0.000199
0.989 0 0
75 pai_rais 9
0.00537 0 0.000796
0.994 0 0
76 rise_cost 12
0.0123 0 0.000199
0.987 0 0
77 health_care 2
0.00677 0 0
0.993 0 0
78 univers_health_care 5
0.0217 0 0
0.978 0 0
79 organ_labor 56
0.502 0 0.446
0.0525 0 0
80 busi_lobbi 71
0.041 0 0.076
0.468 0 0.415
81 card_check 10
0.00418 0 0.00418
0.505 0 0.486
82 unit_state 28
0.232 0 0.231
0.164 0 0.373
83 work_famili 9
0.0414 0.0484 0.193
0.168 0 0.549
84 middl_class 12
0.033 0.00398 0.292
0.103 0.0474 0.521
85 tax_cut 1
0.00398 0 0.0191
0.127 0.0513 0.799
86 __NUM___million_peopl 13
0.293 0.000199 0.0505
0.115 0.0452 0.496
87 incom_tax 11
0.000597 0.00577 0.44
0.00537 0.045 0.503
88 hard_time 27
0.00657 0 0.115
0.000398 0.00756 0.87
89 unemploy_insur 23
0.000199 0 0.0191
0.000597 0 0.98
90 __NUM___job 23
0.000796 0 0.0993
0 0 0.9
91 middl_class 17
0.609 0.000199 0.0971
0.000995 0 0.293
92 global_economi 20
0.326 0 0.0143
0.552 0 0.108
93 tax_credit 9
0.0555 0 0.00478
0.852 0 0.0878
94 commun_servic 8
0.0591 0 0.0101
0.865 0 0.0661
95 tax_break 25
0.000199 0 0.925
0.00995 0 0.0651
96 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0249
0 0 0.975
97 good_job 9
0.00239 0 0.0159
0 0 0.982
98 decent_wage 2
0.000199 0 0.00358
0.00199 0 0.994
99 fiscal_respons 20
0 0 0.0185
0 0 0.981
100 __MONEY___billion 5
0 0 0.0203
0 0 0.98
101 ten_year 4
0.000597 0 0.00478
0 0 0.995
102 hous_crisi 31
0.0223 0 0.0386
0.000597 0 0.939
103 same_kind 10
0.264 0 0.653
0.0201 0 0.0621
104 labor_movement 5
0.0155 0 0.0472
0.238 0 0.699
105 green_job 8
0 0 0.312
0.0105 0 0.677
106 __MONEY___billion 12
0 0 0.0135
0.000995 0 0.985
107 green_energi 8
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
108 __NUM___million 7
0.00338 0 0.00498
0 0 0.992
109 recent_decad 43
0.00856 0 0.0199
0.00179 0 0.97
110 wind_power 24
0 0 0.0205
0.000199 0 0.979
111 trade_deal 44
0 0 0.988
0 0 0.0115
112 south_korea 3
0 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
113 american_worker 6
0 0 0.00896
0 0 0.991
114 trade_deal 13
0 0 0.00776
0 0 0.992
115 multin_corpor 6
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
116 american_worker 6
0.000199 0 0.00836
0 0 0.991
117 trade_relat 11
0.000199 0 0.00776
0 0 0.992
118 free_trade_agreement 9
0 0 0.00716
0 0 0.993
119 presid_bush 3
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
120 trade_deal 44
0 0 0.0253
0 0 0.975
121 american_worker 10
0 0 0.0406
0 0 0.959
122 environment_protect 9
0.00119 0 0.0328
0 0 0.966
123 spend___MONEY___billion 34
0.00358 0 0.0346
0.000199 0 0.962
124 john_mccain 56
0.0185 0 0.0498
0.00239 0 0.929
125 troop_home 27
0.952 0 0.0127
0.0125 0 0.0223
126 good_job 15
0.103 0 0.00597
0.89 0 0.000398
127 univers_health_care 2
0.0123 0 0.00159
0.98 0 0.00557
128 social_secur 22
0.0537 0 0.733
0.206 0 0.00697
129 american_peopl 27
0.315 0 0.0318
0.218 0 0.435
130 life_stori 41
0.331 0.000199 0.0239
0.451 0 0.195
131 student_loan 19
0.365 0 0.241
0.346 0 0.0474
132 medic_bill 16
0.0299 0 0.36
0.342 0 0.268
133 hundr_year 54
0.000597 0 0.386
0.0141 0 0.599
134 year_ago 0
0.000199 0 0.00537
0.0139 0 0.98
135 main_street 11
0.000199 0 0.0412
0 0 0.959
136 wall_street 4
0.000398 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
137 john_mccain 64
0.00557 0 0.0492
0 0 0.945
138 american_dream 25
0.214 0 0.0171
0.00478 0 0.764
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