Barack Obama

This speech titled 2007.11.07 originally had 3243 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 132 cue terms and an average lag of 22.0. 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 22
0.998 0.000199 0.00199
0 0 0
2 spend_time 20
0.109 0 0.000597
0.89 0 0.000199
3 big_citi 97
0.48 0.000199 0.000199
0.52 0 0
4 small_town 2
0.0165 0 0
0.983 0 0
5 health_care 34
0.165 0 0.00776
0.827 0 0
6 american_dream 23
0.157 0 0.00159
0.841 0 0.000597
7 world_war_ii 13
0.0724 0 0
0.928 0 0
8 gi_bill 4
0.0271 0 0
0.973 0 0
9 work_hard 25
0.122 0 0.00458
0.873 0 0
10 stai_home 89
0.398 0 0.000597
0.601 0 0
11 singl_mom 44
0.248 0 0
0.752 0 0
12 food_stamp 6
0.0261 0 0.000199
0.974 0 0
13 decad_ago 65
0.0525 0 0
0.947 0 0
14 commun_organ 4
0.00199 0 0
0.998 0 0
15 corpor_world 16
0.0247 0 0.000199
0.975 0 0
16 law_firm 3
0.00358 0 0
0.996 0 0.000199
17 singl_person 5
0.108 0 0
0.892 0 0
18 american_dream 28
0.683 0 0.0173
0.3 0 0
19 __NUM___million_american 75
0.454 0.000995 0.00139
0.544 0 0
20 american_live 1
0.0263 0 0.00139
0.971 0.000199 0.00119
21 health_care 2
0.107 0 0.00637
0.886 0 0.000199
22 fellow_american 22
0.775 0 0.0233
0.199 0 0.00259
23 american_dream 4
0.0299 0 0.00418
0.945 0 0.0205
24 global_economi 29
0.141 0 0.0527
0.783 0 0.0233
25 class_american 4
0.0609 0.000597 0.00597
0.86 0 0.073
26 work_hard 6
0.0844 0 0.00139
0.89 0 0.0247
27 middl_class 3
0.0253 0 0.00159
0.954 0 0.0195
28 american_dream 5
0.0277 0 0.000796
0.952 0 0.0193
29 work_harder 15
0.073 0 0.0119
0.898 0 0.0175
30 health_care 7
0.0392 0 0.0414
0.89 0 0.0297
31 campaign_trail 65
0.151 0 0.5
0.285 0 0.0637
32 american_dream 28
0.0289 0 0.272
0.147 0 0.552
33 white_hous 7
0.000398 0 0.151
0.0289 0 0.82
34 georg_bush 2
0 0 0.0302
0 0 0.97
35 dick_chenei 2
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
36 tax_cut 4
0 0 0.00736
0 0 0.993
37 work_peopl 12
0 0 0.00876
0 0 0.991
38 ten_year 5
0 0 0.00358
0 0 0.996
39 minimum_wage 3
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
40 ceo_pai 5
0.000597 0 0.00338
0 0 0.996
41 health_care 10
0.00398 0 0.0123
0.000398 0 0.983
42 bush_administr 37
0.000199 0 0.0308
0 0 0.969
43 georg_bush 21
0 0 0.0157
0 0 0.984
44 countri_back 51
0.0161 0 0.333
0 0 0.651
45 corpor_lobbyist 8
0.00159 0 0.0183
0.0105 0 0.97
46 common_purpos 49
0.845 0 0.0125
0.0109 0 0.132
47 american_dream 6
0.264 0 0.0438
0.552 0 0.141
48 unit_state 9
0.0535 0 0.0583
0.71 0 0.178
49 work_peopl 98
0.0378 0 0.735
0.0251 0 0.202
50 special_interest 19
0.00577 0 0.0472
0.0291 0 0.918
51 main_street 17
0.000597 0 0.0452
0.00458 0 0.95
52 wall_street 5
0.00159 0 0.00756
0.00438 0 0.986
53 american_dream 6
0.0133 0 0.00975
0.00557 0 0.971
54 work_peopl 11
0.00756 0 0.0503
0.0119 0 0.93
55 middl_class 18
0.00896 0.0426 0.172
0.00418 0 0.772
56 work_famili 5
0.000995 0.00478 0.0167
0.00716 0.0426 0.928
57 tax_code 19
0.000199 0.0271 0.0649
0.000199 0.0474 0.86
58 incom_tax 11
0 0.0121 0.0231
0 0.0744 0.89
59 tax_cut 0
0 0.000398 0.00219
0 0.0862 0.911
60 payrol_tax 4
0 0.000199 0.00318
0 0.0866 0.91
61 work_american 2
0 0 0.00239
0 0.084 0.914
62 work_famili 13
0.000199 0 0.00955
0 0.083 0.907
63 incom_tax 11
0 0.000398 0.0139
0 0.0792 0.906
64 ten_year 14
0.0105 0 0.0647
0.00119 0.00159 0.922
65 minimum_wage 4
0.000398 0 0.00358
0.0117 0.000995 0.983
66 work_american 15
0.00498 0 0.0135
0.00995 0.000796 0.971
67 american_dream 9
0.295 0 0.00557
0.00438 0 0.696
68 american_famili 9
0.157 0.00776 0.00836
0.283 0 0.543
69 singl_mother 145
0.683 0.0193 0.000995
0.289 0.00736 0.000796
70 work_parent 19
0.04 0.00358 0.00318
0.926 0.0267 0.000199
71 work_famili 39
0.0173 0.000597 0.884
0.0848 0.00896 0.00398
72 hous_market 6
0.00119 0 0.035
0.0778 0.000398 0.886
73 bankruptci_law 56
0.000199 0 0.0888
0.00318 0 0.908
74 middl_class 28
0.00398 0 0.0567
0 0 0.939
75 tax_credit 7
0.000199 0 0.00299
0.00358 0 0.993
76 mortgag_interest 8
0 0 0.00736
0 0 0.993
77 interest_payment 0
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
78 subprim_mortgag 15
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
79 credit_card 6
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
80 rate_system 43
0 0 0.0151
0 0 0.985
81 credit_card 12
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
82 same_principl 51
0 0 0.0129
0 0 0.987
83 bankruptci_law 7
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
84 cut_back 14
0.00478 0 0.32
0 0 0.675
85 safeti_net 2
0.00179 0 0.0372
0.00378 0 0.957
86 work_peopl 2
0.00896 0 0.0153
0.00139 0 0.974
87 health_care 19
0.0649 0.00119 0.164
0.00736 0 0.762
88 million_dollar 7
0.00836 0.000995 0.115
0.0507 0.00119 0.823
89 reform_bill 7
0.0101 0 0.047
0.048 0.00159 0.893
90 credit_card_compani 9
0 0 0.153
0.000199 0 0.847
91 work_peopl 7
0.000398 0 0.00637
0 0 0.993
92 bankruptci_law 7
0 0 0.00498
0 0 0.995
93 pension_fund 20
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
94 bankruptci_law 34
0.00279 0 0.00896
0 0 0.988
95 health_care 67
0.929 0 0.0173
0.00279 0 0.0511
96 __NUM___million 21
0.102 0.000199 0.00179
0.89 0 0.00597
97 health_care 13
0.0197 0 0
0.979 0 0.00139
98 insur_industri 25
0.0129 0 0
0.987 0 0
99 univers_health_care 10
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
100 health_care_bill 0
0.00119 0 0.000199
0.999 0 0
101 work_hard 53
0.58 0 0.338
0.0822 0 0.000199
102 __NUM___million 15
0.0408 0 0.237
0.4 0 0.323
103 work_peopl 1
0.00637 0 0.0265
0.41 0 0.557
104 retir_plan 10
0.0261 0 0.0312
0.372 0 0.571
105 american_dream 14
0.0724 0 0.304
0.0332 0 0.59
106 retir_account 24
0.000199 0 0.121
0 0 0.879
107 small_percentag 4
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
108 feder_govern 58
0.039 0 0.0943
0 0 0.867
109 work_famili 5
0.00776 0.000199 0.0354
0.0316 0 0.925
110 dramat_increas 3
0.00856 0 0.0754
0.0334 0.000199 0.882
111 american_dream 44
0.663 0 0.0121
0.0203 0 0.304
112 child_left 51
0.4 0.000398 0.00498
0.516 0 0.0786
113 make_real 10
0.355 0 0.000199
0.643 0 0.00119
114 earli_childhood 6
0.0147 0 0
0.985 0 0
115 childhood_educ 0
0 0 0
1 0 0
116 colleg_educ 36
0.0159 0 0
0.984 0 0
117 tax_credit 23
0.00876 0 0
0.991 0 0
118 worth___MONEY__ 1
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
119 financi_aid 28
0.0422 0 0.106
0.852 0 0
120 commun_colleg 44
0.883 0 0
0.117 0 0
121 young_peopl 59
0.313 0 0.00199
0.685 0 0
122 american_dream 14
0.0939 0 0.00159
0.904 0 0.000398
123 special_interest 29
0.145 0 0.00179
0.853 0 0.000398
124 make_progress 17
0.1 0 0.00537
0.895 0 0
125 decad_ago 107
0.394 0 0.0179
0.588 0 0.000398
126 american_dream 5
0.407 0 0.0115
0.572 0 0.00995
127 work_harder 72
0.557 0 0.00358
0.44 0 0.000199
128 singl_mom 28
0.135 0 0
0.865 0 0
129 south_side 28
0.122 0 0
0.878 0 0
130 american_famili 97
0.844 0.00358 0.0454
0.107 0 0
131 daili_live 43
0.246 0.000199 0.0159
0.726 0 0.0121
132 american_dream 13
0.0945 0 0.00796
0.888 0 0.00975
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