Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.11.03.FL originally had 3283 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 101 cue terms and an average lag of 29.5. 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 georg_bush 34
0.00139 0.000199 0.998
0 0 0
2 wall_street 52
0.00119 0 0.151
0 0 0.848
3 hard_work 3
0.00159 0 0.00617
0.000597 0 0.992
4 main_street 6
0.000995 0 0.0105
0.00159 0 0.987
5 year_ago 134
0.0406 0 0.305
0.000398 0 0.654
6 state_capitol 8
0.00199 0 0.0205
0.0358 0 0.942
7 common_sens 88
0.0289 0 0.0919
0.00517 0 0.874
8 american_peopl 25
0.0127 0 0.0175
0.0267 0 0.943
9 work_hard 9
0.00796 0 0.0127
0.0372 0 0.942
10 futur_gener 4
0.000796 0 0.00716
0.04 0 0.952
11 full_forc 30
0 0 0.0587
0 0 0.941
12 statu_quo 3
0.000995 0 0.00338
0 0 0.996
13 american_peopl 23
0.00179 0 0.0157
0.000398 0 0.982
14 sit_back 37
0.000398 0.000199 0.0295
0.000398 0 0.97
15 econom_crisi 36
0.00199 0 0.972
0 0 0.0261
16 great_depress 3
0 0 0.0199
0.000199 0 0.98
17 __NUM___worker 1
0 0 0.00179
0.000199 0 0.998
18 big_corpor 80
0 0 0.973
0 0 0.0273
19 wall_street 29
0.00119 0 0.0673
0 0 0.932
20 unit_state 37
0.00338 0 0.101
0 0 0.896
21 senat_mccain 3
0 0 0.00776
0.00119 0 0.991
22 georg_bush 24
0 0 0.0225
0 0 0.978
23 john_mccain 25
0 0 0.0143
0 0 0.986
24 bush_tax_cut 14
0 0 0.0131
0 0 0.987
25 senat_mccain 43
0 0 0.0334
0 0 0.967
26 american_peopl 9
0.000597 0 0.00697
0 0 0.992
27 georg_bush 9
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
28 john_mccain 7
0.000398 0 0.0283
0 0 0.971
29 __NUM___job 20
0 0 0.966
0 0 0.0342
30 __NUM___home 6
0.000398 0.000199 0.0135
0 0 0.986
31 fed_chairman 9
0 0 0.0191
0 0 0.981
32 alan_greenspan 1
0.00119 0.000597 0.0123
0 0 0.986
33 econom_crisi 18
0.000995 0 0.292
0 0 0.707
34 john_mccain 2
0.00139 0.000398 0.0657
0.000995 0 0.932
35 tax_cut 79
0 0.0271 0.678
0 0.000398 0.295
36 fortun___NUM__ 4
0 0.000398 0.0111
0 0.0263 0.962
37 __MONEY___billion 3
0.000199 0 0.00697
0 0.0233 0.97
38 wall_street_bank 4
0 0 0.0285
0 0.00438 0.967
39 __NUM___million 23
0.00259 0.000398 0.0846
0 0.00259 0.91
40 class_american 3
0.000199 0.000199 0.00597
0.000597 0.00259 0.99
41 unit_state 14
0.00119 0 0.0219
0 0 0.977
42 john_mccain 8
0 0 0.00736
0 0 0.993
43 georg_bush 5
0 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
44 senat_mccain 5
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
45 small_thing 71
0.00498 0.000398 0.0519
0 0 0.943
46 american_peopl 58
0.824 0 0.0237
0.00358 0 0.149
47 beat_back 23
0.198 0.000199 0.000398
0.798 0 0.00358
48 american_peopl 40
0.0334 0 0.000199
0.966 0 0.000796
49 red_state 20
0.0115 0 0
0.988 0 0
50 blue_state 2
0.00378 0 0
0.996 0 0
51 unit_state 5
0.0304 0 0.143
0.826 0 0
52 difficult_time 24
0.00975 0.000199 0.656
0.204 0 0.13
53 bigger_govern 112
0 0 0.302
0 0 0.698
54 smaller_govern 2
0 0.000199 0.00239
0 0 0.997
55 tax_cut 31
0.00199 0.076 0.918
0 0.000199 0.00398
56 tax_break 33
0.00159 0.00995 0.139
0 0.0547 0.795
57 tax_rate 43
0 0.878 0.0117
0 0.0635 0.0464
58 senat_mccain 10
0.000597 0.0394 0.00139
0 0.934 0.0243
59 tax_increas 19
0 0.038 0
0 0.962 0.000398
60 incom_tax 8
0 0.00498 0
0 0.995 0
61 payrol_tax 4
0 0.00239 0
0 0.998 0
62 capit_gain 4
0 0.00279 0
0 0.997 0
63 gain_tax 0
0 0.000597 0
0 0.999 0
64 rais_tax 13
0 0.00816 0.0748
0 0.915 0.00179
65 bring_back 41
0.00338 0 0.93
0 0.000995 0.0661
66 john_mccain 14
0 0 0.0227
0 0 0.977
67 trade_agreement 6
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
68 tax_break 4
0 0 0.0253
0 0 0.975
69 american_job 5
0.000398 0 0.0231
0 0 0.977
70 job_oversea 0
0 0 0.0486
0 0 0.951
71 creat_job 15
0.0157 0.000796 0.86
0 0 0.123
72 unit_state 4
0.00438 0 0.0267
0.0143 0 0.955
73 __MONEY___billion 23
0 0.000398 0.0939
0.000199 0 0.905
74 renew_sourc 4
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
75 solar_power 7
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
76 clean_coal 10
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
77 nuclear_power 8
0.00219 0 0.000995
0 0 0.997
78 health_care 26
0.99 0.000995 0.00716
0.00219 0 0
79 health_care_system 12
0.0209 0 0
0.979 0 0
80 health_insur 13
0.00318 0 0
0.997 0 0
81 same_kind 29
0.00517 0 0
0.995 0 0
82 health_insur 2
0.000199 0 0.000199
1 0 0
83 insur_compani 25
0.00537 0 0.0157
0.979 0 0
84 unit_state 49
0.911 0 0.0818
0.00159 0 0.00517
85 higher_standard 56
0.235 0 0.00657
0.746 0 0.0121
86 spend___MONEY___billion 87
0.00219 0 0.983
0 0 0.0151
87 iraqi_govern 8
0 0 0.00736
0 0 0.993
88 bin_laden 35
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
89 al_qaeda 3
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
90 qaeda_terrorist 0
0.000199 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
91 econom_crisi 79
0.0147 0 0.983
0 0 0.00179
92 feder_budget 37
0.00736 0.000199 0.087
0.00597 0 0.9
93 fellow_citizen 81
0.986 0 0.00139
0.0123 0 0.000199
94 energi_independ 9
0.0105 0 0.00259
0.985 0 0.00139
95 nativ_american 98
0.357 0 0.000199
0.643 0 0
96 unit_state 148
0.58 0 0.121
0.299 0 0
97 town_hall 136
0.569 0 0.00139
0.43 0 0
98 insur_compani 76
0.0951 0 0.0352
0.869 0 0.000199
99 fight_back 63
0.104 0.000796 0.0249
0.857 0 0.0137
100 god_bless 302
0.981 0 0
0.0185 0 0
101 god_bless_america 5
0.0193 0 0
0.981 0 0
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