Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.01.30 originally had 3764 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 94 cue terms and an average lag of 36.8. 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 common_purpos 48
0.991 0 0.00915
0 0 0
2 john_edward 1
0.00259 0 0.00557
0.983 0 0.00915
3 west_virginia 50
0.112 0 0.00617
0.88 0 0.00139
4 democrat_parti 66
0.0814 0 0.000199
0.918 0 0.000199
5 unit_state 14
0.0354 0 0.000199
0.964 0 0
6 primari_campaign 11
0.00796 0 0
0.992 0 0
7 good_thing 5
0.147 0 0.00697
0.846 0 0
8 american_peopl 12
0.0332 0 0.000597
0.962 0 0.00438
9 common_goal 4
0.0127 0.000398 0.000796
0.981 0 0.00458
10 democrat_parti 53
0.0985 0 0.00279
0.899 0 0.000199
11 ethnic_group 108
0.161 0 0.00617
0.832 0 0.000398
12 world_war_ii 39
0.738 0 0.00438
0.257 0 0.000796
13 simpl_truth 21
0.135 0 0.00358
0.859 0 0.00259
14 democrat_parti 15
0.437 0.000199 0.116
0.441 0 0.00537
15 georg_bush 168
0.00179 0 0.919
0.00438 0 0.075
16 dick_chenei 13
0.00498 0 0.0127
0.00577 0 0.977
17 health_care 83
0.844 0.000199 0.134
0.000597 0 0.0207
18 clean_energi 3
0.0452 0 0.0141
0.814 0 0.127
19 school_year 4
0.0503 0 0.00557
0.836 0 0.108
20 candid_run 58
0.298 0.000398 0.00577
0.693 0 0.00378
21 democrat_nomin 3
0.0167 0 0
0.98 0 0.00299
22 white_hous 121
0.139 0 0.00876
0.853 0 0
23 american_peopl 8
0.0139 0 0.000995
0.977 0 0.00776
24 year_ago 40
0.0517 0 0.00438
0.941 0 0.00299
25 american_peopl 20
0.0366 0 0.00259
0.957 0 0.00358
26 south_carolina 63
0.075 0 0
0.925 0 0
27 nativ_american 24
0.0342 0 0
0.966 0 0
28 washington_lobbyist 81
0.0792 0 0.0143
0.906 0 0
29 common_purpos 96
0.117 0 0.000398
0.882 0 0.000199
30 young_peopl 54
0.557 0 0.279
0.164 0 0
31 georg_bush 25
0.0147 0 0.64
0.0892 0 0.256
32 turn_back 4
0.317 0 0.00557
0.0691 0 0.608
33 __NUM___centuri 12
0.0366 0 0.0265
0.348 0 0.589
34 stimulu_plan 250
0 0 0.986
0 0 0.0139
35 american_peopl 4
0.000796 0 0.00119
0 0 0.998
36 unemploy_insur 14
0.000398 0 0.00557
0.000597 0 0.993
37 american_dream 13
0.0784 0 0.0209
0.000398 0 0.9
38 american_peopl 11
0.0189 0 0.0404
0.0649 0 0.876
39 big_busi 16
0.00159 0 0.367
0.00358 0 0.628
40 work_american 5
0.000597 0 0.0139
0.00338 0 0.982
41 work_peopl 5
0.0155 0 0.0113
0.00318 0 0.97
42 public_life 3
0.0346 0 0.0267
0.0181 0 0.921
43 bankruptci_law 29
0 0 0.179
0.000796 0 0.82
44 credit_card_compani 17
0.000398 0 0.116
0 0 0.884
45 american_peopl 56
0.122 0 0.373
0.000199 0 0.505
46 tax_break 38
0 0 0.58
0.000199 0 0.42
47 job_oversea 6
0 0 0.00975
0 0 0.99
48 work_american 9
0 0 0.0137
0 0 0.986
49 tax_cut 8
0.000199 0 0.0273
0 0 0.973
50 work_peopl 22
0.00279 0 0.0295
0.000199 0 0.968
51 incom_tax 10
0.00139 0.00498 0.0527
0.000398 0 0.94
52 fifteen_year 50
0.459 0.000199 0.0941
0.00139 0.00119 0.444
53 health_care 3
0.197 0 0.0764
0.411 0.000199 0.315
54 put_forward 3
0.128 0 0.112
0.547 0 0.213
55 health_care 22
0.34 0 0.00498
0.6 0 0.0557
56 cut_cost 22
0.0464 0 0.00219
0.917 0 0.0342
57 health_care 12
0.0466 0.000199 0.00378
0.925 0 0.0243
58 young_peopl 54
0.64 0 0.00796
0.351 0 0.000199
59 earli_childhood 44
0.453 0 0
0.547 0 0
60 childhood_educ 0
0.00119 0 0
0.999 0 0
61 young_peopl 30
0.667 0 0.00597
0.327 0 0
62 tax_credit 4
0.0251 0 0.00159
0.969 0 0.00458
63 colleg_tuition 2
0.0259 0 0.00179
0.967 0 0.00577
64 foreign_polici 92
0.39 0 0.11
0.498 0 0.00239
65 reduc_emiss 29
0.00438 0 0.941
0.0179 0 0.0364
66 fuel_effici 6
0 0 0.0418
0 0 0.958
67 environment_group 11
0.00139 0 0.00358
0 0 0.995
68 american_peopl 46
0.82 0 0.0291
0.000995 0 0.15
69 presid_kennedi 36
0.244 0 0.00159
0.751 0 0.00398
70 great_challeng 18
0.0231 0 0.000398
0.976 0 0.000796
71 climat_crisi 27
0.0432 0 0.00498
0.952 0 0
72 nation_secur 64
0.0193 0 0.92
0.0571 0 0.00398
73 georg_bush 9
0 0 0.108
0.00199 0 0.89
74 american_peopl 11
0.00179 0 0.0129
0.00199 0 0.983
75 john_mccain 50
0.00139 0 0.0545
0.000796 0 0.943
76 georg_bush 26
0.000199 0 0.0241
0.000199 0 0.976
77 american_peopl 56
0.0426 0 0.1
0 0 0.857
78 nation_secur 5
0.00259 0 0.00955
0.041 0 0.947
79 democrat_parti 10
0.00398 0 0.00358
0.0428 0 0.95
80 osama_bin_laden 77
0.00199 0 0.071
0 0 0.927
81 al_qaeda 87
0 0 0.0412
0 0 0.959
82 nuclear_weapon 47
0.000199 0 0.0175
0 0 0.982
83 presid_kennedi 45
0.00299 0 0.0195
0.000199 0 0.977
84 habea_corpu 45
0 0 0.0183
0 0 0.982
85 prison_camp 13
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
86 __NUM___centuri 18
0.000995 0 0.00816
0 0 0.991
87 nuclear_weapon 4
0.000597 0 0.00259
0.000796 0 0.996
88 realiti_check 104
0.851 0 0.0533
0.000796 0 0.0947
89 young_peopl 60
0.489 0 0.00597
0.504 0 0.000796
90 democrat_parti 60
0.206 0 0.000398
0.794 0 0
91 common_purpos 22
0.0175 0 0
0.982 0 0
92 white_hous 128
0.247 0 0.044
0.709 0 0
93 creat_equal 31
0.562 0 0.00438
0.431 0 0.00299
94 american_peopl 194
0.516 0 0.2
0.283 0 0.00179
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