Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.09.06 originally had 1441 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 60 cue terms and an average lag of 20.0. 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 home_state 43
0.988 0.000597 0.0117
0 0 0
2 fifti_year 11
0.034 0.000398 0.0179
0.937 0.000398 0.0103
3 work_hard 31
0.734 0.000199 0.0113
0.252 0 0.00318
4 world_war_ii 29
0.119 0 0
0.881 0 0
5 gi_bill 12
0.0366 0 0
0.963 0 0
6 feder_govern 11
0.0372 0.000199 0.0356
0.927 0 0
7 class_life 86
0.455 0 0.00259
0.542 0 0.000199
8 work_harder 28
0.083 0 0.032
0.883 0 0.00219
9 colleg_tuition 18
0.0521 0 0.0963
0.818 0 0.0336
10 white_hous 45
0.0515 0 0.527
0.296 0 0.126
11 ownership_societi 5
0.0197 0.000199 0.0245
0.31 0 0.646
12 health_care 25
0.0673 0 0.0245
0.323 0 0.586
13 emerg_room 3
0.00318 0 0.00239
0.388 0 0.607
14 republican_nomine 16
0 0 0.398
0 0 0.602
15 john_mccain 2
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
16 georg_bush 34
0 0 0.0175
0 0 0.982
17 bush___NUM__ 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
18 health_care_plan 52
0.00517 0 0.0362
0 0 0.959
19 social_secur 21
0 0 0.0247
0 0 0.975
20 john_mccain 31
0 0 0.0185
0 0 0.981
21 mccain_campaign 0
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
22 campaign_manag 0
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
23 john_mccain 30
0.000199 0 0.0205
0 0 0.979
24 social_secur 20
0 0 0.0201
0 0 0.98
25 john_mccain 9
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
26 social_secur 5
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
27 babi_boomer 48
0.00239 0.00259 0.0404
0 0 0.955
28 georg_bush 26
0 0 0.0233
0 0 0.977
29 john_mccain 6
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
30 social_secur 3
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
31 bad_idea 3
0 0 0.00378
0 0 0.996
32 georg_bush 2
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
33 bad_idea 7
0 0 0.0115
0 0 0.988
34 retir_incom 15
0 0.00139 0.0223
0 0 0.976
35 stock_market 6
0 0 0.0129
0 0.000398 0.987
36 social_secur 42
0 0 0.0496
0 0 0.95
37 cut_cost 4
0.000199 0 0.00338
0 0 0.996
38 retir_ag 9
0.000398 0.000199 0.00677
0.000199 0 0.992
39 work_men 13
0.0718 0.000796 0.137
0.000398 0 0.79
40 social_secur 18
0 0.000796 0.0935
0 0.000796 0.905
41 payrol_tax 1
0 0.00418 0.00239
0 0.00159 0.992
42 class_famili 8
0.000398 0.000995 0.102
0 0.00378 0.893
43 small_percentag 20
0.000199 0.000398 0.0201
0.000199 0.000796 0.978
44 peopl_make 17
0.000597 0 0.384
0 0 0.615
45 class_famili 36
0.00259 0.00119 0.245
0 0 0.751
46 social_secur 24
0.000796 0 0.07
0.000199 0 0.929
47 futur_gener 3
0.0135 0 0.00776
0.000995 0 0.978
48 rise_cost 17
0.0111 0.401 0.0129
0.00398 0 0.571
49 incom_tax 16
0 0.305 0.107
0 0.397 0.19
50 __NUM___million 16
0.00517 0.0151 0.137
0 0.65 0.193
51 cut_tax 5
0.000199 0.0121 0.0217
0.000995 0.658 0.307
52 work_famili 10
0.0965 0.00975 0.0183
0.00119 0.613 0.261
53 health_care 26
0.744 0.00239 0.0259
0.0925 0.0826 0.0523
54 same_kind 48
0.194 0 0.00179
0.802 0 0.00219
55 insur_compani 18
0.00677 0 0.000398
0.991 0 0.00139
56 drug_compani 57
0.0177 0 0
0.982 0 0
57 lower_cost 2
0 0 0.000398
1 0 0
58 care_plan 42
0.0135 0 0.000995
0.985 0 0.000398
59 lower_cost 2
0 0 0.000199
0.998 0 0.00139
60 wealth_creation 35
0.0569 0.0366 0.234
0.671 0 0.00139
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