Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.07.30 originally had 1678 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 87 cue terms and an average lag of 17.2. 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_repres 5
0.00955 0.0625 0.928
0 0 0
2 major_issu 8
0 0.000398 0.0155
0.000199 0.0619 0.922
3 job_loss 70
0.000995 0.00119 0.104
0 0.00597 0.888
4 price_rise 6
0.000597 0 0.00796
0.000597 0.00378 0.987
5 singl_dai 15
0.992 0 0.00716
0.000995 0 0.000199
6 work_harder 2
0.00896 0 0.000597
0.984 0 0.00597
7 good_job 148
0.262 0.00975 0.439
0.287 0 0.00239
8 busi_cycl 53
0 0.000199 0.69
0.000199 0 0.31
9 wall_street 16
0 0 0.0131
0 0 0.987
10 long_run 19
0.000398 0 0.0171
0 0 0.982
11 wall_street 7
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
12 main_street 4
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
13 hous_crisi 38
0 0 0.0314
0 0 0.969
14 special_interest 9
0.000199 0 0.00856
0 0 0.991
15 free_market 13
0.000398 0 0.00677
0 0 0.993
16 govern_fail 13
0.000199 0 0.0117
0 0 0.988
17 work_peopl 16
0.00458 0 0.0432
0 0 0.952
18 econom_polici 66
0.000796 0 0.0892
0.000199 0 0.91
19 work_famili 10
0.000796 0.000995 0.0135
0.000597 0 0.984
20 wall_street 61
0.000199 0 0.0844
0 0 0.915
21 main_street 2
0 0 0.00378
0.000199 0 0.996
22 rise_cost 48
0.0285 0.735 0.0639
0 0 0.173
23 tax_cut 6
0.000995 0.0766 0.122
0.00975 0.727 0.0637
24 includ___NUM__ 13
0.00637 0.0177 0.0227
0.00915 0.788 0.156
25 __NUM___million 0
0.00498 0.000398 0.0854
0.0163 0.709 0.184
26 hous_crisi 9
0.00517 0.00338 0.236
0.0141 0.478 0.263
27 senat_mccain 25
0.00119 0.219 0.0167
0.00418 0.475 0.284
28 tax_cut 22
0.000199 0.267 0.0163
0 0.684 0.0316
29 cut_tax 7
0 0.04 0.00139
0 0.948 0.0105
30 senat_mccain 2
0 0.00478 0
0 0.986 0.00915
31 cut_tax 2
0 0.00776 0.000398
0 0.99 0.00219
32 __MONEY___million 5
0 0.00617 0
0 0.994 0
33 cut_tax 2
0 0.00139 0
0 0.999 0
34 middl_class 2
0 0.00139 0
0 0.999 0
35 class_famili 0
0 0.000597 0
0 0.999 0
36 incom_tax 32
0 0.0189 0
0 0.981 0
37 payrol_tax 4
0 0.00418 0
0 0.996 0
38 capit_gain 4
0 0.00179 0
0 0.998 0
39 gain_tax 0
0 0.000398 0
0 1 0
40 tax_haven 27
0 0 0.98
0 0.0175 0.00299
41 roll_back 3
0 0 0.0794
0 0 0.921
42 bush_tax_cut 2
0 0 0.0111
0 0 0.989
43 __NUM___centuri 37
0.138 0 0.181
0 0 0.681
44 global_economi 22
0.0101 0 0.0529
0.117 0 0.82
45 fiscal_polici 27
0.000199 0 0.161
0.00119 0 0.838
46 wreak_havoc 7
0 0 0.00697
0 0 0.993
47 fiscal_respons 20
0.00716 0 0.0203
0 0 0.973
48 health_care_system 12
0.987 0 0.00179
0.00697 0 0.00398
49 cut_cost 57
0.0223 0.000995 0.0131
0.963 0 0.000796
50 job_creation 41
0.0137 0.0438 0.938
0.00318 0.000796 0.000995
51 unit_state 3
0.00677 0 0.0746
0.0123 0.00179 0.904
52 tax_break 6
0 0 0.0754
0.000398 0.000199 0.924
53 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0285
0 0 0.972
54 creat_job 7
0.000597 0.000199 0.0434
0 0 0.956
55 trade_agreement 11
0 0 0.0452
0 0 0.955
56 wall_street 4
0.000199 0 0.334
0 0 0.666
57 main_street 2
0.000597 0 0.04
0 0 0.959
58 million_job 7
0.000398 0.0169 0.374
0 0 0.609
59 spend___MONEY___billion 37
0.0143 0.000199 0.494
0 0.000398 0.491
60 unit_state 18
0.0297 0 0.197
0.000398 0 0.773
61 energi_crisi 25
0 0 0.149
0 0 0.851
62 __MONEY___billion 10
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
63 tax_break 2
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
64 oil_compani 2
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
65 final_make 13
0.00139 0 0.00756
0 0 0.991
66 make_america 0
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
67 energi_independ 1
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
68 oil_price 7
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
69 renew_energi 11
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
70 wind_power 2
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
71 solar_power 2
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
72 green_job 17
0.00836 0 0.00597
0 0 0.986
73 global_economi 58
0.986 0 0.00239
0.00756 0 0.00358
74 earli_childhood 5
0.0105 0 0
0.989 0 0
75 childhood_educ 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
76 final_make 16
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
77 tax_credit 8
0.00279 0 0
0.997 0 0
78 nation_servic 6
0.00219 0 0
0.998 0 0
79 town_hall 71
0.996 0 0.000199
0.00338 0 0
80 live_room 2
0.0115 0 0
0.988 0 0
81 front_porch 5
0.0213 0 0
0.979 0 0
82 work_harder 26
0.0886 0 0.00119
0.91 0 0
83 video_game 10
0.0328 0.000199 0.0119
0.954 0 0.00139
84 person_respons 8
0.249 0 0.278
0.46 0 0.0127
85 tax_dollar 10
0.0299 0 0.0115
0.675 0 0.284
86 hard_work 18
0.338 0 0.0177
0.515 0 0.13
87 year_ahead 61
0.305 0.00239 0.00816
0.675 0 0.00915
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