Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.05.06 originally had 2596 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 73 cue terms and an average lag of 32.8. 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 north_carolina 7
0.967 0 0.0326
0 0 0
2 senat_clinton 38
0.106 0 0.00796
0.864 0 0.0219
3 north_carolina 17
0.0864 0 0.000398
0.901 0 0.0125
4 swing_state 12
0.0251 0 0
0.975 0 0
5 democrat_nomine 15
0.0107 0 0
0.989 0 0
6 unit_state 5
0.0167 0 0.000199
0.983 0 0
7 campaign_began 3
0.00438 0 0.000398
0.995 0 0.000199
8 democrat_nomin 91
0.0911 0 0
0.909 0 0
9 unit_state 5
0.0193 0 0.000398
0.98 0 0
10 american_peopl 49
0.079 0 0.00577
0.915 0 0
11 hillari_clinton 60
0.0669 0 0.00119
0.932 0 0
12 senat_clinton 17
0.0161 0 0
0.984 0 0
13 clinton_support 0
0.000597 0 0
0.999 0 0
14 hillari_clinton 54
0.0569 0 0
0.943 0 0
15 barack_obama 2
0.00318 0 0
0.997 0 0
16 john_mccain 2
0.00239 0 0.000995
0.997 0 0
17 american_peopl 8
0.00955 0 0.000398
0.989 0 0.000796
18 primari_season 21
0.0181 0 0.000398
0.981 0 0
19 common_purpos 64
0.0569 0 0
0.943 0 0
20 democrat_parti 15
0.0111 0 0.00259
0.986 0 0
21 john_mccain 45
0.00119 0 0.982
0.0151 0 0.00139
22 georg_bush 6
0 0 0.0181
0.00179 0 0.98
23 tax_break 47
0.000398 0 0.152
0 0 0.847
24 job_oversea 9
0 0 0.0259
0 0 0.974
25 tax_break 6
0 0 0.0207
0 0 0.979
26 good_job 5
0.00179 0 0.0155
0 0 0.983
27 tax_break 11
0.000796 0 0.0677
0.000398 0 0.931
28 million_dollar 16
0.0245 0.0702 0.108
0.000995 0 0.796
29 tax_relief 7
0.00239 0.000796 0.0143
0.0249 0.0702 0.887
30 colleg_tuition 16
0.827 0 0.00299
0.0131 0.000199 0.157
31 colleg_student 8
0.189 0 0.00299
0.806 0 0.00279
32 medic_bill 21
0.0541 0 0.000398
0.945 0 0.000597
33 health_care_plan 15
0.00577 0 0
0.994 0 0.000199
34 insur_compani 15
0.00299 0 0.00119
0.996 0 0
35 same_kind 38
0.0223 0 0.0163
0.96 0 0.000995
36 energi_polici 162
0.00776 0 0.89
0.0939 0 0.00796
37 oil_compani 4
0 0 0.0153
0.0898 0 0.895
38 sound_good 44
0.0125 0 0.215
0.00259 0 0.77
39 oil_compani 35
0 0 0.0484
0.000995 0 0.951
40 clean_energi 7
0.0193 0 0.00299
0.000199 0 0.978
41 small_town 19
0.982 0 0.000597
0.0177 0 0
42 big_citi 2
0.0133 0 0
0.987 0 0
43 hard_work 22
0.106 0 0.00239
0.892 0 0
44 person_respons 4
0.0253 0 0.00199
0.971 0 0.00199
45 health_care 101
0.405 0.000199 0.0422
0.552 0 0.000398
46 gi_bill 57
0.381 0 0
0.619 0 0
47 world_war_ii 6
0.0356 0 0
0.964 0 0
48 singl_parent 37
0.188 0 0
0.812 0 0
49 food_stamp 6
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
50 south_side 38
0.0193 0 0
0.981 0 0
51 wall_street 137
0.0667 0 0.907
0.0261 0 0
52 john_mccain 11
0.0364 0 0.0384
0.0555 0 0.87
53 polit_gain 137
0.932 0 0
0.0681 0 0.000398
54 red_state 9
0.00876 0 0
0.991 0 0
55 blue_state 2
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
56 american_peopl 170
0.24 0 0.567
0.194 0 0
57 al_qaeda 91
0.00239 0 0.516
0.00677 0 0.474
58 american_peopl 5
0.0728 0 0.0199
0.00816 0 0.899
59 big_govern 45
0.74 0.000398 0.133
0.0533 0 0.0736
60 wall_street 21
0.0103 0 0.762
0.0937 0 0.134
61 tax_break 17
0.000398 0 0.158
0.000995 0 0.841
62 life_save 13
0.000796 0 0.0302
0.000199 0 0.969
63 american_peopl 31
0.452 0 0.042
0.00119 0 0.505
64 san_antonio 39
0.588 0 0.0145
0.366 0 0.0316
65 simpl_truth 150
0.69 0 0
0.31 0 0
66 year_ago 5
0.00438 0 0
0.996 0 0
67 steel_mill 10
0.00338 0 0.000199
0.996 0 0
68 south_side 3
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
69 american_dream 99
0.88 0 0.0332
0.0868 0 0
70 hard_work 122
0.568 0 0.00318
0.428 0 0.000796
71 american_dream 7
0.0382 0 0.000199
0.961 0 0.000398
72 god_bless 8
0.046 0 0.000199
0.954 0 0
73 unit_state 2
0.0159 0 0.00219
0.981 0 0.000398
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