Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.07.10 originally had 2240 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 79 cue terms and an average lag of 24.9. 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_daughter 44
0.673 0.111 0.216
0 0 0
2 singl_mom 51
0.566 0.000199 0
0.433 0.000995 0.000597
3 vice_presid 68
0.224 0 0.000199
0.775 0 0
4 glass_ceil 13
0.00478 0.000199 0
0.995 0 0
5 campaign_trail 100
0.892 0.0101 0.00816
0.0901 0 0
6 work_parent 9
0.107 0.0129 0
0.87 0.00995 0
7 year___NUM__ 76
0.0633 0 0.000796
0.936 0 0
8 famili_leav 30
0.00856 0 0
0.991 0 0
9 __NUM___cent 53
0.0251 0.00239 0.00856
0.964 0 0
10 middl_class 62
0.306 0.0149 0.133
0.544 0.000597 0.00159
11 nation_prioriti 52
0.194 0.00955 0.000597
0.788 0.00597 0.00239
12 spend_time 36
0.0314 0.00378 0.000199
0.95 0.0145 0
13 work_parent 23
0.0163 0.0263 0.000796
0.939 0.0181 0
14 senat_mccain 24
0.00896 0.00677 0.727
0.24 0.0165 0.000796
15 econom_issu 27
0.0221 0.000199 0.139
0.134 0.00139 0.703
16 senat_mccain 37
0.000398 0.00139 0.156
0.0245 0.000398 0.817
17 phil_gramm 18
0 0 0.0492
0.000199 0 0.951
18 senat_mccain 7
0.000199 0.000398 0.0165
0.000199 0 0.983
19 unit_state 18
0.0175 0 0.13
0 0 0.853
20 senat_mccain 13
0.00159 0.00418 0.0776
0.00398 0 0.913
21 rise_cost 47
0.0197 0.0105 0.467
0.00139 0.000796 0.5
22 lost___NUM__ 10
0 0 0.282
0 0 0.718
23 __NUM___job 0
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
24 econom_downturn 20
0.000199 0.000199 0.0217
0 0 0.978
25 american_peopl 34
0.122 0 0.0424
0.000199 0 0.836
26 senat_mccain 22
0.106 0.00577 0.0247
0.11 0 0.754
27 famili_incom 36
0.267 0.000796 0.0326
0.212 0.000995 0.486
28 senat_mccain 25
0.332 0.00299 0.0115
0.472 0.000398 0.181
29 suprem_court 3
0.122 0.000199 0.000199
0.802 0.000796 0.075
30 decis_make 11
0.0297 0.00259 0.0187
0.894 0.000796 0.0541
31 econom_issu 103
0.36 0.000199 0.0249
0.608 0 0.00756
32 state_senat 43
0.472 0 0
0.528 0 0
33 pass_legisl 22
0.0643 0 0
0.936 0 0
34 senat_mccain 28
0.0149 0.000398 0.00358
0.981 0 0
35 work_mother 21
0.0103 0 0
0.99 0 0
36 __NUM___million 36
0.0281 0.000199 0.00179
0.97 0 0
37 work_mother 15
0.00577 0 0
0.994 0 0
38 famili_leav 18
0.00517 0 0
0.995 0 0
39 tax_credit 71
0.0515 0 0.000199
0.948 0 0
40 addit___NUM__ 3
0.00279 0 0.000199
0.997 0 0.000199
41 __NUM___million 0
0.00398 0 0.000199
0.996 0 0.000199
42 million_children 15
0.0211 0 0.000199
0.979 0 0
43 __MONEY___billion 4
0.0442 0.000995 0.00358
0.951 0 0.000199
44 earli_childhood 10
0.143 0 0
0.857 0 0
45 childhood_educ 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
46 stai_home 26
0.157 0.000398 0.00716
0.836 0 0
47 __MONEY___billion 41
0.0125 0.0462 0.609
0.325 0.000199 0.00677
48 senat_mccain 28
0.00796 0.0205 0.165
0.197 0.0416 0.568
49 middl_class 40
0.0492 0.00279 0.531
0.00378 0.00975 0.403
50 week_ago 18
0.00736 0 0.0818
0.0318 0.000597 0.878
51 ten_year_ago 29
0.0169 0.00637 0.0764
0.0279 0.000398 0.872
52 senat_mccain 56
0.00458 0.00139 0.14
0.00716 0.00179 0.846
53 bush_tax_cut 5
0.000597 0 0.0213
0.0105 0.000995 0.967
54 work_famili 26
0.811 0.00557 0.0115
0.0105 0.000597 0.161
55 earn_incom 5
0.182 0 0
0.818 0 0
56 incom_tax_credit 0
0 0 0
1 0 0
57 state_senat 19
0.0613 0 0.000995
0.938 0 0
58 __MONEY___million 11
0.00796 0.161 0.475
0.356 0 0.000796
59 tax_relief 2
0 0.104 0.147
0.122 0.16 0.467
60 senat_mccain 7
0.000796 0.0179 0.127
0.00139 0.254 0.599
61 minimum_wage 6
0.00179 0.00199 0.0133
0.00199 0.267 0.714
62 rise_cost 8
0.00557 0.0521 0.00378
0.00318 0.267 0.668
63 __NUM___million 8
0.00677 0.0557 0.0338
0.00478 0.315 0.584
64 senat_mccain 8
0.000995 0.0308 0.00716
0.00557 0.367 0.588
65 nest_egg 77
0.000199 0.558 0.0169
0 0.374 0.0513
66 capit_gain 13
0 0.0752 0
0 0.925 0.000199
67 small_busi 7
0 0.00498 0.00557
0 0.989 0
68 busi_owner 0
0.000199 0.000597 0.00418
0 0.989 0.00597
69 creat_job 5
0.00139 0.00358 0.107
0 0.877 0.0109
70 retir_save 23
0.00119 0.0125 0.0977
0.000199 0.783 0.106
71 save_account 0
0.000398 0.000796 0.00139
0.00139 0.794 0.202
72 __NUM___million 39
0.116 0.0629 0.0989
0.000398 0.719 0.00199
73 tax_cut 7
0.00577 0.0207 0.00557
0.105 0.78 0.0838
74 child_care 5
0.0882 0.0141 0.000398
0.11 0.775 0.0121
75 __NUM___women 4
0.00139 0.0513 0.000597
0.156 0.786 0.00478
76 capit_gain 7
0 0.167 0
0 0.833 0
77 gain_tax 0
0 0.000398 0
0 1 0
78 work_hard 28
0.938 0 0.0555
0.00239 0.00398 0
79 american_dream 43
0.161 0 0.0267
0.785 0.000199 0.0269
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