Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.08.02.FL originally had 2094 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 89 cue terms and an average lag of 20.9. 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 major_issu 14
0.00318 0.0587 0.938
0 0 0
2 job_loss 80
0 0 0.129
0 0.000796 0.87
3 ga_price 1
0 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
4 food_price 5
0 0 0.00498
0 0 0.995
5 health_care 9
0.0289 0.000597 0.0464
0 0 0.924
6 great_depress 27
0.0358 0 0.136
0.0177 0 0.811
7 work_hard 49
0.719 0.000398 0.165
0.044 0 0.0714
8 good_job 52
0.109 0.00498 0.242
0.468 0 0.176
9 econom_problem 42
0.000597 0 0.696
0.00239 0 0.301
10 busi_cycl 21
0 0 0.0533
0 0 0.947
11 wall_street 11
0.000199 0 0.0101
0 0 0.99
12 recent_year 5
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
13 long_run 11
0.000199 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
14 wall_street 7
0 0 0.00756
0 0 0.992
15 main_street 4
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
16 hous_crisi 37
0.000199 0 0.0257
0 0 0.974
17 special_interest 9
0.00119 0 0.00756
0 0 0.991
18 free_market 11
0 0 0.0103
0.000199 0 0.989
19 govern_fail 15
0.000398 0 0.0133
0 0 0.986
20 work_peopl 16
0.00716 0 0.0693
0 0 0.924
21 econom_polici 66
0.00199 0 0.125
0.000597 0 0.873
22 year_ago 26
0.00219 0 0.0595
0.00119 0 0.937
23 econom_polici 15
0.000597 0 0.0314
0.000796 0 0.967
24 wall_street 56
0.000398 0 0.0852
0 0 0.914
25 main_street 2
0.00119 0.000398 0.00378
0.000398 0 0.994
26 elect_presid 16
0.267 0.477 0.0939
0.00139 0.000398 0.16
27 tax_cut 6
0.000199 0.372 0.0406
0.0221 0.477 0.0888
28 incom_tax 20
0.000199 0.151 0.000796
0 0.84 0.00816
29 work_parent 11
0.00517 0.00896 0.000398
0.000199 0.982 0.00318
30 emerg_plan 42
0.00179 0.00219 0.907
0.000398 0.0844 0.00438
31 oil_compani 28
0.000995 0 0.34
0.000199 0 0.659
32 rise_price 12
0.000796 0.000199 0.044
0.000398 0 0.955
33 __MONEY___billion 39
0.000199 0.00119 0.666
0 0 0.332
34 made___MONEY__ 10
0 0.000199 0.0738
0 0.000398 0.926
35 senat_mccain 21
0 0.000199 0.0279
0 0.000199 0.972
36 oil_compani 5
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
37 __MONEY___billion 4
0 0.000597 0.0283
0 0 0.971
38 tax_cut 2
0.000398 0.00637 0.547
0 0.000398 0.445
39 tax_break 10
0 0 0.0581
0 0 0.942
40 oil_compani 2
0 0 0.0113
0 0 0.989
41 work_famili 42
0.00458 0.131 0.442
0 0.000199 0.421
42 __MONEY___billion 9
0 0.00617 0.043
0.000398 0.127 0.823
43 job_creation 7
0 0.0219 0.0503
0 0.132 0.796
44 local_commun 3
0.00119 0.00139 0.0165
0 0.147 0.834
45 econom_downturn 7
0.000597 0.000796 0.078
0 0.074 0.847
46 state_govern 8
0 0.000597 0.00915
0.000199 0.073 0.917
47 million_job 27
0.00239 0.00736 0.0583
0 0.0681 0.864
48 __NUM___centuri 48
0.385 0 0.0609
0.00179 0 0.552
49 space_program 17
0.0525 0.00637 0.0175
0.373 0 0.55
50 cut_back 48
0.0219 0.000199 0.0844
0.384 0.00478 0.504
51 space_program 53
0.0623 0.00259 0.0336
0.381 0.00458 0.516
52 senat_bill 13
0.417 0.00139 0.00975
0.387 0.00279 0.182
53 space_explor 73
0.131 0.0145 0.1
0.618 0.00159 0.135
54 solar_system 25
0.0452 0.00279 0.0458
0.716 0.00955 0.18
55 privat_sector 19
0.035 0 0.171
0.696 0.000398 0.0973
56 global_climat 42
0.0555 0 0.0503
0.682 0 0.212
57 make_america 12
0.522 0 0.114
0.12 0 0.244
58 challeng_face 51
0.151 0.000199 0.377
0.352 0 0.12
59 american_peopl 21
0.0141 0 0.345
0.182 0 0.458
60 senat_mccain 3
0.00159 0.00378 0.0951
0.109 0 0.791
61 energi_crisi 37
0 0 0.542
0 0 0.458
62 renew_energi 7
0 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
63 green_job 7
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
64 green_energi 13
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
65 oil_price 8
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
66 job_creation 38
0.00935 0.0283 0.678
0 0 0.284
67 unit_state 3
0.00915 0 0.108
0.00816 0.000796 0.874
68 tax_break 6
0 0.000199 0.19
0 0 0.81
69 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0617
0 0 0.938
70 creat_job 7
0.0909 0.00199 0.0476
0.000398 0 0.859
71 health_care_system 16
0.887 0 0.00199
0.0868 0 0.0243
72 health_care_cost 27
0.146 0.000398 0.00219
0.848 0 0.00358
73 earli_childhood 41
0.471 0 0
0.529 0 0
74 childhood_educ 0
0 0 0
1 0 0
75 tax_credit 24
0.00597 0 0
0.994 0 0
76 nation_servic 6
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
77 global_economi 13
0.00557 0 0.0559
0.939 0 0
78 fiscal_polici 13
0.000199 0 0.932
0.0139 0 0.0541
79 wreak_havoc 7
0 0 0.0195
0 0 0.98
80 fiscal_respons 20
0 0 0.0143
0 0 0.986
81 cost___MONEY__ 11
0 0 0.00836
0 0 0.992
82 __MONEY___billion 0
0 0.000199 0.00338
0 0 0.996
83 tax_haven 14
0 0.000398 0.429
0 0 0.571
84 roll_back 4
0 0 0.574
0 0 0.426
85 bush_tax_cut 2
0 0 0.0115
0 0 0.988
86 special_interest 113
0.842 0 0.04
0 0 0.118
87 work_hard 11
0.0876 0 0.00318
0.806 0 0.103
88 decent_wage 13
0.0434 0 0.0111
0.846 0 0.0995
89 unit_state 55
0.194 0 0.0868
0.667 0 0.0521
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