Barack Obama

This speech titled 2007.07.26 originally had 2935 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 76 cue terms and an average lag of 34.7. 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 vice_presid 32
0.999 0 0.000796
0 0 0
2 execut_director 7
0.00816 0 0
0.992 0 0.000199
3 democrat_leader 17
0.0185 0 0.000995
0.98 0 0
4 south_carolina 32
0.0392 0 0.000796
0.96 0 0
5 colleg_educ 111
0.996 0 0.000597
0.00378 0 0
6 good_job 7
0.0438 0 0.0101
0.945 0 0.000597
7 earliest_dai 210
0.722 0 0.00478
0.273 0 0.000199
8 unit_state 44
0.209 0 0.0141
0.776 0 0.000995
9 challeng_face 31
0.162 0 0.0151
0.816 0 0.00697
10 oil_compani 9
0.101 0 0.00816
0.879 0 0.0111
11 energi_polici 4
0.0103 0 0
0.979 0 0.0107
12 insur_compani 4
0.0125 0 0.000398
0.987 0 0.000199
13 health_care_polici 4
0.000796 0 0.00159
0.997 0 0.000597
14 colleg_student 98
0.764 0 0.0177
0.219 0 0
15 stai_home 23
0.322 0 0.000199
0.677 0 0.000796
16 commun_organ 71
0.327 0 0
0.673 0 0
17 wall_street 9
0.00637 0 0.000199
0.993 0 0
18 law_school 11
0.00716 0 0
0.993 0 0
19 small_group 23
0.0103 0 0
0.99 0 0
20 south_side 5
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
21 plant_close 26
0.0121 0 0
0.988 0 0
22 older_man 12
0.00677 0 0
0.993 0 0
23 young_man 36
0.0205 0 0
0.98 0 0
24 commun_organ 20
0.0109 0 0
0.989 0 0
25 work_hard 92
0.971 0 0.00577
0.0229 0 0
26 commun_leader 8
0.0476 0 0
0.952 0 0
27 child_care 11
0.00537 0 0
0.995 0 0
28 job_train 2
0.00179 0 0
0.998 0 0
29 train_program 0
0 0 0
1 0 0
30 same_thing 42
0.0283 0 0.000597
0.971 0 0
31 state_senat 9
0.00776 0 0
0.992 0 0.000199
32 death_penalti 86
0.0488 0 0
0.951 0 0
33 innoc_peopl 6
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
34 death_row 2
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
35 pass_law 11
0.00498 0 0
0.995 0 0
36 racial_profil 3
0.00378 0 0
0.996 0 0
37 govern_back 18
0.0151 0 0.00119
0.984 0 0
38 tax_cut 11
0.0645 0.00159 0.109
0.823 0 0.000995
39 work_famili 6
0.0456 0 0.00159
0.868 0.00159 0.0828
40 health_care_reform 13
0.0665 0 0.00239
0.904 0 0.0267
41 __NUM___children 5
0.0185 0 0.000199
0.966 0 0.0149
42 young_man 22
0.277 0 0.000199
0.722 0 0.000398
43 unit_state 53
0.74 0 0.0482
0.212 0 0
44 common_ground 71
0.244 0 0.00119
0.754 0 0.00119
45 white_hous 17
0.0283 0 0.00935
0.96 0 0.00199
46 health_care 146
0.965 0 0.0115
0.0239 0 0
47 insur_compani 29
0.0667 0 0.000398
0.933 0 0.000199
48 univers_health_care 22
0.00438 0 0
0.996 0 0
49 health_care_plan 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
50 bui_insur 29
0.00736 0 0
0.993 0 0
51 young_peopl 35
0.0213 0 0.000199
0.979 0 0
52 health_insur 15
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
53 univers_health_care 43
0.0105 0 0
0.989 0 0
54 health_care_bill 0
0.000796 0 0.000398
0.999 0 0
55 taxpay_dollar 60
0.979 0 0.0181
0.00299 0 0
56 student_loan 13
0.0802 0 0.00119
0.915 0 0.00398
57 colleg_educ 41
0.19 0 0.00139
0.809 0 0
58 oil_industri 76
0.00517 0 0.983
0.0101 0 0.00139
59 industri_lobbyist 0
0 0 0.000796
0.0149 0 0.984
60 renew_sourc 16
0 0 0.0231
0 0 0.977
61 carbon_emiss 6
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
62 renew_sourc 58
0 0 0.0181
0 0 0.982
63 __NUM___million 28
0.000597 0 0.0201
0 0 0.979
64 fuel_effici 13
0.000199 0 0.00378
0 0 0.996
65 unit_state 61
0.916 0 0.0768
0.000199 0 0.00736
66 state_senat 0
0.0101 0 0.00119
0.911 0 0.0774
67 troop_home 58
0.035 0 0.819
0.0726 0 0.0738
68 georg_bush 17
0.000199 0 0.109
0.00398 0 0.887
69 republican_congressmen 43
0 0 0.034
0 0 0.966
70 al_qaeda 90
0 0 0.041
0 0 0.959
71 world_leader 50
0.0207 0 0.0299
0 0 0.949
72 mass_destruct 38
0.00259 0 0.0356
0.00438 0 0.957
73 colleg_campus 134
0.976 0 0.0105
0.00179 0 0.0119
74 voter_registr 15
0.0482 0 0.000995
0.945 0 0.00557
75 presid_call 101
0.314 0 0.0105
0.674 0 0.00179
76 lunch_counter 80
0.37 0 0.000597
0.629 0 0.000199
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 77