Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.09.17 originally had 2771 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 133 cue terms and an average lag of 18.5. 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 financi_crisi 25
0.000597 0 0.999
0 0 0
2 invest_bank 8
0 0 0.0209
0 0 0.979
3 hous_market 10
0.000199 0 0.00876
0 0 0.991
4 wall_street 12
0.00119 0 0.0567
0 0 0.942
5 insur_compani 41
0.0458 0 0.856
0.000199 0 0.0985
6 feder_reserv 25
0 0 0.141
0.000398 0 0.858
7 pai_job 23
0.000199 0 0.0661
0 0 0.934
8 work_american 3
0 0.000199 0.00677
0 0 0.993
9 __NUM___worker 40
0 0.000199 0.0398
0 0 0.96
10 credit_card 43
0 0.000398 0.132
0 0 0.867
11 john_mccain 96
0.0293 0.00299 0.426
0 0 0.542
12 financi_meltdown 69
0.00657 0.00119 0.654
0.00119 0 0.338
13 john_mccain 31
0.000796 0 0.23
0.000597 0 0.769
14 washington_lobbyist 48
0 0 0.0629
0 0 0.937
15 mccain_campaign 33
0 0 0.0241
0 0 0.976
16 john_mccain 7
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
17 corpor_interest 12
0.000995 0.000398 0.0157
0 0 0.983
18 wall_street 2
0 0 0.00557
0.000199 0 0.994
19 __MONEY___billion 10
0.000199 0.00219 0.0215
0 0 0.976
20 tax_cut 2
0 0.000398 0.0484
0.000199 0.00199 0.949
21 job_oversea 17
0 0 0.0412
0 0.000398 0.958
22 phil_gramm 19
0 0 0.0354
0 0 0.965
23 wall_street 21
0 0 0.0235
0 0 0.977
24 john_mccain 10
0 0 0.00836
0 0 0.992
25 econom_plan 1
0 0 0.00597
0 0 0.994
26 phil_gramm 9
0 0 0.00756
0 0 0.992
27 unit_state 20
0.00418 0 0.0302
0 0 0.966
28 john_mccain 12
0.000199 0 0.0121
0.000398 0 0.987
29 wall_street 51
0.00179 0 0.072
0 0 0.926
30 real_solut 65
0.000597 0 0.0726
0 0 0.927
31 wall_street 9
0.000199 0 0.0177
0.000199 0 0.982
32 john_mccain 27
0 0 0.0241
0 0 0.976
33 phil_gramm 8
0 0 0.0121
0 0 0.988
34 treasuri_depart 10
0.000398 0.000796 0.0677
0 0 0.931
35 senat_mccain 13
0 0.000995 0.0275
0.000398 0.000398 0.971
36 washington_lobbyist 66
0 0 0.0846
0 0 0.915
37 consum_protect 2
0.000199 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
38 special_interest 10
0.0165 0 0.0151
0.000199 0 0.968
39 work_peopl 3
0.00418 0 0.0131
0.0155 0 0.967
40 unit_state 38
0.181 0 0.437
0.0147 0 0.367
41 american_peopl 6
0.0133 0 0.075
0.17 0 0.742
42 american_economi 23
0.0195 0.0386 0.276
0.081 0 0.585
43 pearl_harbor 124
0.92 0 0.00836
0.0661 0 0.00557
44 gi_bill 23
0.162 0 0
0.838 0 0
45 food_stamp 46
0.305 0 0.000199
0.695 0 0
46 south_side 40
0.0177 0 0
0.982 0 0
47 decad_ago 11
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0
48 plant_close 5
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
49 unit_state 36
0.0291 0 0.97
0.000796 0 0
50 senat_mccain 2
0 0 0.0299
0.00697 0 0.963
51 wall_street 8
0 0 0.0314
0 0 0.969
52 main_street 11
0 0 0.0155
0 0 0.984
53 year_ago 4
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
54 introduc_legisl 3
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
55 year_ago 15
0.000398 0 0.0205
0 0 0.979
56 treasuri_secretari 6
0 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
57 fed_chairman 3
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
58 subprim_mortgag 12
0 0 0.00836
0 0 0.992
59 john_mccain 10
0 0 0.00796
0 0 0.992
60 __NUM___centuri 16
0.000398 0 0.00975
0 0 0.99
61 financi_market 13
0 0 0.00995
0 0 0.99
62 free_market 5
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
63 america_great 6
0.000199 0 0.00537
0 0 0.994
64 american_economi 42
0 0 0.0356
0 0 0.964
65 larg_part 4
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
66 invis_hand 7
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
67 capit_market 35
0 0 0.0269
0 0 0.973
68 public_trust 5
0 0 0.00577
0 0 0.994
69 job_creation 20
0.000199 0.0199 0.0925
0 0 0.887
70 __MONEY___billion 6
0.00119 0.000995 0.0991
0.000199 0.0155 0.883
71 econom_plan 2
0 0 0.732
0 0 0.268
72 __NUM___million_job 4
0 0 0.0332
0 0 0.967
73 budget_cut 19
0.000398 0 0.0691
0 0 0.931
74 bankruptci_law 13
0 0 0.0123
0 0 0.988
75 tax_credit 6
0.000597 0 0.00597
0 0 0.993
76 mortgag_interest 11
0 0 0.0105
0 0 0.989
77 interest_rate 0
0 0 0
0 0 1
78 mortgag_payment 21
0.000796 0 0.0161
0 0 0.983
79 import_thing 32
0.284 0.000597 0.686
0.000398 0 0.0295
80 economi_grow 15
0.112 0 0.0541
0.264 0 0.569
81 work_hard 13
0.0947 0 0.039
0.354 0 0.512
82 futur_gener 37
0.0665 0 0.135
0.318 0 0.481
83 american_peopl 5
0.00876 0 0.0651
0.328 0 0.598
84 tax_code 5
0.00139 0.00776 0.408
0.04 0 0.543
85 american_worker 12
0.00119 0.00418 0.278
0.000199 0.00458 0.712
86 small_busi 2
0.000398 0.00119 0.0527
0.000398 0.00836 0.937
87 tax_break 8
0 0 0.0452
0 0.000398 0.954
88 job_oversea 5
0 0.000199 0.0135
0 0.000398 0.986
89 good_job 12
0.043 0.168 0.0267
0.000199 0.000597 0.762
90 capit_gain 8
0 0.831 0
0 0.169 0
91 gain_tax 0
0 0.000796 0
0 0.999 0
92 small_busi 2
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
93 cut_tax 27
0 0.0189 0.000199
0 0.981 0
94 work_famili 10
0 0.00776 0.000199
0 0.992 0
95 tax_rate 15
0 0.00876 0
0 0.991 0
96 ronald_reagan 9
0 0.00438 0
0 0.996 0
97 tax_increas 15
0 0.00816 0
0 0.992 0
98 tax_relief 12
0 0.00836 0
0 0.992 0
99 class_famili 4
0 0.00378 0.000199
0 0.996 0.000199
100 senat_mccain 2
0.000199 0.00279 0.000995
0 0.996 0.000199
101 rais_tax 17
0 0.0119 0.0374
0 0.951 0
102 health_care 16
0.648 0.00358 0.103
0.00159 0.218 0.0261
103 same_kind 27
0.124 0 0.168
0.609 0.000398 0.0983
104 insur_compani 13
0.00318 0 0.0625
0.68 0 0.254
105 energi_economi 23
0 0 0.712
0 0 0.288
106 natur_ga 4
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
107 clean_coal 5
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
108 nuclear_power 9
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
109 auto_compani 4
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
110 american_peopl 27
0.000597 0 0.00896
0 0 0.99
111 __NUM___billion 9
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
112 billion_dollar 0
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
113 renew_sourc 8
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
114 wind_power 4
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
115 solar_power 2
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
116 moral_oblig 38
0.998 0 0.00139
0 0 0.000199
117 global_economi 21
0.00697 0 0
0.993 0 0
118 higher_standard 27
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
119 young_american 12
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
120 colleg_educ 21
0.032 0 0.00299
0.965 0 0
121 american_economi 20
0.00139 0.00637 0.964
0.0251 0 0.00279
122 fiscal_respons 37
0 0 0.0659
0 0 0.934
123 special_interest 19
0.00338 0 0.0145
0 0 0.982
124 wall_street 33
0 0 0.0366
0 0 0.963
125 main_street 3
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
126 financi_market 65
0 0.000199 0.0601
0 0 0.94
127 world_greatest 64
0.000597 0 0.0669
0 0 0.933
128 creat_job 10
0.000995 0.000199 0.0563
0.000199 0 0.942
129 main_street 70
0 0 0.0788
0 0 0.921
130 wall_street 2
0 0 0.00557
0 0 0.994
131 tax_relief 5
0 0.0183 0.031
0 0 0.951
132 middl_class 3
0.0687 0.00478 0.103
0 0.0169 0.807
133 health_care 10
0.0702 0.00259 0.041
0.0651 0.0181 0.803
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