Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.02.12 originally had 2068 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 61 cue terms and an average lag of 29.1. 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 young_peopl 151
0.991 0 0.00915
0 0 0
2 red_state 43
0.2 0 0
0.8 0 0
3 blue_state 2
0.00876 0 0
0.991 0 0
4 unit_state 3
0.0569 0 0.0197
0.923 0 0
5 statu_quo 57
0.404 0 0.358
0.224 0 0.0143
6 ordinari_american 36
0.105 0 0.127
0.42 0 0.347
7 unit_state 59
0.0354 0 0.477
0.0545 0 0.433
8 trade_deal 7
0 0 0.0987
0 0 0.901
9 job_oversea 4
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
10 minimum_wage 12
0.000398 0 0.00736
0 0 0.992
11 american_worker 10
0.00119 0 0.0376
0.000199 0 0.961
12 main_street 35
0.00975 0 0.135
0.000398 0 0.855
13 wall_street 4
0.0133 0 0.0145
0.00955 0 0.963
14 health_care 41
0.77 0 0.0247
0.0171 0 0.188
15 common_purpos 30
0.28 0 0.00856
0.699 0 0.0121
16 nation_secur 18
0.082 0 0.143
0.761 0 0.0133
17 democrat_nomine 123
0.163 0 0.306
0.528 0 0.00299
18 john_mccain 11
0.00557 0 0.0458
0.643 0 0.306
19 real_problem 18
0.0199 0 0.0424
0.609 0 0.328
20 american_peopl 3
0.00557 0 0.131
0.494 0 0.37
21 georg_bush 13
0 0 0.503
0.00438 0 0.492
22 tax_cut 14
0.000199 0 0.03
0 0 0.97
23 john_mccain 17
0 0 0.0127
0 0 0.987
24 senat_mccain 22
0.00199 0 0.0155
0 0 0.982
25 hundr_year 12
0.00179 0 0.0127
0.00199 0 0.983
26 white_hous 16
0.0559 0 0.0537
0.00338 0 0.887
27 bin_laden 30
0.316 0 0.595
0.0133 0 0.0758
28 american_peopl 35
0.0189 0 0.365
0.0557 0 0.56
29 senat_mccain 10
0.000398 0.000199 0.0896
0.00597 0 0.904
30 bush_tax_cut 17
0 0 0.0322
0.000398 0 0.967
31 republican_nomin 37
0.00239 0 0.0334
0.000199 0 0.964
32 spend_monei 22
0.0583 0.000199 0.646
0.000796 0 0.295
33 american_dream 108
0.958 0 0.00279
0.0265 0 0.0127
34 big_citi 6
0.0537 0 0
0.946 0 0
35 small_town 2
0.0169 0 0
0.983 0 0
36 work_hard 12
0.0557 0 0.00159
0.943 0 0
37 health_care 17
0.0822 0 0.00557
0.911 0 0.000796
38 young_peopl 31
0.206 0 0.00617
0.787 0 0.00119
39 american_dream 18
0.103 0 0.0444
0.847 0 0.00597
40 tax_cut 38
0.00637 0.000995 0.921
0.0302 0 0.0412
41 work_peopl 5
0.00756 0 0.0245
0.0297 0 0.938
42 health_care 32
0.0434 0.000199 0.129
0.0217 0 0.806
43 bankruptci_law 48
0.00318 0 0.167
0.00796 0 0.822
44 american_peopl 29
0.134 0 0.423
0.00279 0 0.439
45 social_secur 4
0.0237 0 0.168
0.112 0 0.696
46 tax_credit 72
0.835 0 0.0105
0.0937 0 0.0603
47 commun_servic 6
0.0414 0 0.00299
0.913 0 0.0426
48 nation_servic 3
0.127 0 0.00179
0.86 0 0.0111
49 start_talk 75
0.567 0.000199 0.251
0.178 0 0.00378
50 realiti_check 20
0.221 0 0.0181
0.643 0 0.118
51 unit_state 16
0.204 0 0.0299
0.682 0 0.0842
52 commun_organ 122
0.726 0 0.00338
0.269 0 0.00219
53 good_intent 75
0.902 0.000199 0.0105
0.0866 0 0.000597
54 centuri_ago 69
0.107 0 0.000597
0.89 0 0.00159
55 progress_movement 2
0.0137 0 0.000796
0.983 0 0.00199
56 special_interest 19
0.387 0 0.0209
0.592 0 0.000398
57 american_dream 26
0.427 0 0.0111
0.548 0 0.0139
58 american_peopl 17
0.122 0 0.0123
0.848 0 0.0177
59 small_town 37
0.33 0 0.0101
0.658 0 0.00279
60 democrat_nation 20
0.0856 0 0.127
0.777 0 0.0107
61 nation_convent 0
0.00179 0 0.00159
0.859 0 0.137
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