Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.05.03 originally had 3491 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 107 cue terms and an average lag of 29.1. 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 challeng_face 216
0.898 0 0.102
0 0 0
2 young_man 77
0.436 0 0.000199
0.564 0 0.000398
3 plant_close 44
0.0804 0 0.000597
0.919 0 0
4 top_execut 6
0.144 0 0.0424
0.813 0 0.000597
5 kitchen_tabl 21
0.401 0 0.264
0.302 0 0.0328
6 wall_street 43
0.123 0 0.297
0.301 0 0.28
7 health_care 103
0.63 0.000597 0.0712
0.194 0 0.104
8 gi_bill 72
0.542 0 0
0.458 0 0
9 world_war_ii 6
0.0368 0 0
0.963 0 0
10 singl_parent 46
0.226 0 0
0.774 0 0
11 food_stamp 6
0.00358 0 0
0.996 0 0
12 south_side 41
0.0205 0 0
0.98 0 0
13 same_question 120
0.4 0 0.115
0.485 0 0
14 america_todai 4
0.139 0 0.00199
0.812 0 0.0474
15 singl_parent 35
0.147 0 0
0.852 0 0.000995
16 minimum_wage 41
0.174 0 0.00557
0.82 0 0.000199
17 wage_job 0
0.0115 0 0.00239
0.982 0 0.00358
18 million_dollar 21
0.0229 0.00179 0.0306
0.939 0 0.00537
19 decad_ago 58
0.191 0 0.000796
0.808 0 0.000199
20 south_side 70
0.0472 0 0
0.953 0 0
21 decad_ago 6
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
22 plant_close 11
0.00537 0 0.000199
0.994 0 0
23 work_peopl 75
0.0233 0 0.976
0.000597 0 0.000199
24 john_mccain 20
0.000199 0 0.043
0 0 0.957
25 bush_polici 13
0 0 0.0101
0 0 0.99
26 tax_break 10
0 0 0.033
0 0 0.967
27 job_oversea 26
0 0 0.0653
0 0 0.935
28 tax_break 37
0.00239 0 0.0884
0 0 0.909
29 health_care 8
0.121 0 0.0149
0.00219 0 0.862
30 energi_polici 37
0.0693 0 0.0521
0.113 0 0.766
31 health_care_polici 4
0.000398 0 0.0229
0.17 0 0.806
32 tax_polici 5
0.000199 0 0.0675
0.106 0 0.826
33 senat_clinton 26
0.00955 0 0.0129
0.1 0 0.877
34 real_american 4
0.00338 0 0.00219
0.108 0 0.886
35 oil_compani 13
0.664 0 0.0105
0.102 0 0.223
36 drug_compani 3
0.233 0 0
0.766 0 0.000995
37 insur_compani 3
0.000597 0 0.00279
0.997 0 0
38 senat_clinton 104
0.106 0 0.655
0.237 0 0.00199
39 john_mccain 18
0.00697 0 0.0929
0.267 0 0.633
40 oil_compani 39
0.00637 0 0.503
0.109 0 0.381
41 ga_price 65
0.472 0 0.0945
0.00279 0 0.43
42 polit_issu 9
0.463 0 0.00856
0.459 0 0.0697
43 senat_clinton 2
0.0722 0 0.00139
0.917 0 0.00915
44 win_elect 31
0.0394 0 0
0.961 0 0
45 solv_problem 4
0.00617 0 0.00617
0.988 0 0
46 senat_clinton 2
0.00219 0 0.00438
0.987 0 0.00597
47 american_peopl 67
0.242 0 0.246
0.504 0 0.00816
48 bring_back 46
0.155 0 0.511
0.139 0 0.196
49 same_problem 97
0.189 0.000199 0.418
0.108 0 0.285
50 same_kind 17
0.315 0 0.32
0.242 0 0.122
51 senat_clinton 44
0.0482 0 0.248
0.332 0 0.373
52 senat_mccain 3
0.00299 0.000199 0.0103
0.37 0 0.616
53 american_dream 50
0.821 0 0.0133
0.0295 0 0.136
54 __NUM___centuri 28
0.207 0 0.042
0.717 0 0.0332
55 unit_state 16
0.0959 0 0.0868
0.766 0 0.0517
56 tax_cut 65
0.00139 0.000398 0.926
0.00498 0 0.0673
57 tax_haven 13
0 0 0.0551
0 0 0.945
58 work_famili 6
0 0 0.0189
0 0 0.981
59 incom_tax 3
0 0 0.0191
0 0 0.981
60 tax_credit 10
0.00199 0 0.0474
0 0 0.951
61 mortgag_interest 11
0 0 0.0515
0 0 0.948
62 interest_payment 0
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
63 health_care_plan 7
0.999 0 0.000398
0 0 0.000199
64 averag_famili 6
0.00219 0 0.000199
0.998 0 0
65 same_kind 11
0.00438 0 0.00876
0.987 0 0
66 health_care 2
0.00438 0 0.0283
0.959 0 0.00876
67 bush_tax_cut 22
0 0 0.959
0.00637 0 0.0346
68 wealthiest___NUM__ 4
0 0 0.0119
0 0 0.988
69 bring_back 20
0 0 0.0259
0 0 0.974
70 free_trade 24
0 0 0.0161
0 0 0.984
71 special_interest 21
0.00716 0 0.0107
0 0 0.982
72 american_worker 9
0.000199 0 0.077
0.000199 0 0.923
73 tax_break 9
0 0 0.0702
0 0 0.93
74 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0486
0 0 0.951
75 tax_break 9
0.000199 0 0.0977
0 0 0.902
76 good_job 8
0.0408 0 0.0973
0.000199 0 0.862
77 creat_job 8
0.0263 0.000199 0.427
0.0213 0 0.525
78 year_ago 16
0.0201 0 0.0704
0.0354 0 0.874
79 __MONEY___billion 44
0 0 0.262
0 0 0.738
80 ten_year 2
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
81 hous_crisi 22
0.000796 0 0.0189
0 0 0.98
82 energi_independ 74
0.00139 0 0.187
0 0 0.812
83 green_job 6
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
84 oil_compani 57
0 0 0.0215
0 0 0.979
85 renew_energi 14
0 0 0.00478
0 0 0.995
86 solar_power 2
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
87 wind_power 3
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
88 green_economi 12
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
89 middl_east 26
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
90 ga_price 14
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
91 ten_year 6
0.00219 0 0.00358
0 0 0.994
92 global_economi 32
0.932 0 0.00856
0.00139 0 0.0583
93 earli_childhood 51
0.101 0 0
0.899 0 0
94 childhood_educ 0
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
95 global_economi 45
0.108 0 0.00816
0.883 0 0
96 young_peopl 19
0.638 0 0.122
0.239 0 0.00159
97 class_famili 58
0.083 0.000398 0.651
0.164 0 0.102
98 health_care 12
0.0607 0 0.0424
0.22 0 0.677
99 green_job 10
0.0165 0 0.0561
0.248 0 0.679
100 common_sens 77
0.877 0 0.0591
0.0601 0 0.00418
101 forti_year 37
0.16 0 0.000398
0.839 0 0.000796
102 year_ago 0
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
103 robert_kennedi 4
0.00418 0 0
0.996 0 0
104 barack_obama 131
0.257 0 0.000398
0.743 0 0
105 health_care 121
0.635 0.000199 0.0945
0.27 0 0
106 god_bless 103
0.686 0 0
0.314 0 0
107 unit_state 2
0.0151 0 0.00299
0.982 0 0
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