Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.09.29 originally had 2830 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 130 cue terms and an average lag of 19.4. 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 wall_street 18
0.00299 0 0.997
0 0 0
2 financi_crisi 9
0 0 0.0358
0.000398 0 0.964
3 great_depress 10
0.000796 0 0.0267
0.000398 0 0.972
4 life_save 55
0.000597 0 0.134
0 0 0.865
5 good_deal 53
0.21 0.000995 0.171
0.000199 0 0.617
6 american_peopl 31
0.00935 0 0.252
0.0436 0 0.695
7 __MONEY___billion 9
0.000199 0.000398 0.0802
0.00498 0 0.914
8 wall_street 17
0 0 0.0575
0 0 0.942
9 american_peopl 11
0.00159 0 0.0159
0 0 0.982
10 tax_dollar 20
0.000995 0 0.03
0.000995 0 0.968
11 american_taxpay 44
0 0 0.0412
0 0 0.959
12 tax_dollar 21
0.000199 0 0.0189
0 0 0.981
13 wall_street 8
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
14 welfar_program 52
0 0 0.0428
0 0 0.957
15 wall_street 3
0.000398 0 0.00617
0 0 0.993
16 hard_work 14
0.0155 0 0.0197
0.000398 0 0.964
17 monei_back 49
0.000398 0 0.0561
0.000398 0 0.943
18 __NUM___worker 19
0 0 0.0155
0 0 0.984
19 wall_street 61
0.0193 0 0.17
0 0 0.81
20 health_care 21
0.17 0.000995 0.205
0.0165 0 0.607
21 renew_energi 3
0.0243 0 0.0527
0.175 0.000398 0.748
22 busi_cycl 50
0 0 0.543
0 0 0.457
23 bad_appl 7
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
24 wall_street 2
0 0 0.00438
0 0 0.996
25 direct_result 5
0 0 0.0129
0 0 0.987
26 consum_protect 60
0.0159 0 0.831
0 0 0.153
27 special_interest 6
0.00318 0 0.0153
0.0153 0 0.966
28 work_peopl 3
0.00159 0 0.0101
0.0161 0 0.972
29 senat_mccain 34
0.0185 0.0358 0.0509
0.0119 0 0.883
30 twenti_time 36
0.513 0.0563 0.0736
0.0257 0.0259 0.305
31 recent_interview 10
0.0382 0.00478 0.0352
0.509 0.0744 0.338
32 taxpay_dollar 31
0.0917 0.000398 0.623
0.0738 0.000796 0.21
33 senat_mccain 5
0.000199 0 0.241
0.0103 0 0.748
34 spend___MONEY___billion 4
0 0 0.0324
0.00657 0 0.961
35 tax_break 3
0 0.000796 0.033
0 0 0.966
36 fortun___NUM__ 18
0 0.00955 0.0179
0 0.000597 0.972
37 __NUM___million 12
0.00179 0.00159 0.0597
0 0.00756 0.929
38 class_american 3
0 0 0.00537
0.000199 0.00876 0.986
39 corpor_lobbyist 11
0 0 0.0249
0 0 0.975
40 work_dai 22
0.000995 0 0.0563
0 0 0.943
41 senat_mccain 29
0.000796 0.00179 0.225
0.000199 0 0.772
42 wall_street 13
0.000199 0 0.217
0 0 0.783
43 main_street 2
0.00139 0 0.0115
0 0 0.987
44 long_time 2
0.0187 0 0.00537
0.00139 0 0.975
45 time_ago 0
0.000199 0 0.00119
0.0199 0 0.979
46 senat_mccain 52
0.00378 0.00358 0.101
0.00279 0 0.889
47 econom_polici 47
0.0818 0 0.0746
0.00299 0 0.841
48 senat_mccain 11
0.404 0.00279 0.00716
0.0812 0 0.505
49 same_kind 7
0.497 0 0.0187
0.483 0 0.00119
50 health_care_system 5
0.00478 0 0.00179
0.977 0 0.0167
51 bank_system 8
0.00299 0.00478 0.821
0.154 0 0.0173
52 social_secur 22
0 0.000398 0.248
0.000199 0.000995 0.75
53 nest_egg 5
0 0.00179 0.0151
0 0.00139 0.982
54 wall_street 6
0 0 0.0374
0 0 0.963
55 tax_break 16
0 0 0.29
0 0 0.71
56 big_corpor 2
0.000199 0 0.00478
0 0 0.995
57 middl_class 75
0.907 0.00159 0.0613
0.000199 0 0.0295
58 singl_dai 2
0.045 0 0.00159
0.899 0 0.0545
59 unit_state 13
0.0539 0.000199 0.00876
0.899 0 0.0384
60 pearl_harbor 112
0.376 0 0.00299
0.621 0 0.000597
61 gi_bill 23
0.163 0 0
0.837 0 0
62 food_stamp 46
0.321 0 0
0.679 0 0
63 south_side 40
0.0155 0 0
0.984 0 0
64 decad_ago 11
0.00119 0 0
0.999 0 0
65 plant_close 5
0 0 0
1 0 0
66 unit_state 36
0.348 0 0.641
0.0105 0 0
67 special_interest 60
0.0235 0 0.401
0.0669 0 0.509
68 wall_street 12
0 0 0.114
0.00358 0 0.883
69 financ_system 18
0 0 0.0257
0 0 0.974
70 wall_street 35
0.000199 0 0.048
0 0 0.952
71 main_street 16
0.00159 0.000597 0.0195
0 0 0.978
72 small_busi 21
0.00159 0.317 0.636
0 0.000597 0.0444
73 busi_owner 0
0.000199 0.000199 0.00657
0.000597 0.314 0.678
74 econom_stimulu 17
0 0 0.356
0 0 0.644
75 stimulu_plan 0
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
76 work_famili 4
0 0 0.00259
0 0 0.997
77 ga_price 13
0 0 0.0101
0 0 0.99
78 million_job 4
0 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
79 budget_cut 14
0 0 0.0111
0 0 0.989
80 tax_increas 2
0 0.000398 0.00199
0 0 0.998
81 unemploy_benefit 7
0 0 0.00577
0 0.000398 0.994
82 tax_code 21
0.00498 0.749 0.238
0 0.000398 0.00756
83 american_worker 12
0.000398 0.102 0.0137
0 0.743 0.141
84 small_busi 2
0.000199 0.109 0.000199
0 0.845 0.0458
85 capit_gain 10
0 0.0533 0
0 0.947 0
86 gain_tax 0
0 0.00119 0
0 0.999 0
87 small_busi 2
0 0.00199 0
0 0.998 0
88 cut_tax 27
0 0.0189 0.000995
0 0.98 0
89 work_famili 10
0.000199 0.00637 0
0 0.993 0.000199
90 tax_rate 15
0 0.0115 0
0 0.988 0
91 ronald_reagan 9
0 0.00816 0
0 0.992 0
92 tax_increas 15
0 0.00796 0.000398
0 0.992 0
93 tax_relief 12
0 0.0119 0.000199
0 0.988 0
94 class_famili 4
0 0.00219 0.00119
0 0.996 0.000199
95 senat_mccain 2
0 0.000796 0.000398
0 0.998 0.00119
96 rais_tax 17
0.000398 0.0127 0.0338
0 0.953 0
97 health_care 16
0.652 0.00219 0.109
0.00279 0.211 0.0225
98 same_kind 27
0.128 0 0.152
0.618 0.000398 0.101
99 insur_compani 13
0.00299 0 0.0631
0.694 0 0.24
100 energi_economi 25
0 0 0.73
0.000199 0 0.27
101 natur_ga 4
0 0 0.00239
0 0 0.998
102 clean_coal 5
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
103 nuclear_power 9
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
104 auto_compani 4
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
105 unit_state 19
0.000398 0 0.0127
0 0 0.987
106 american_peopl 9
0.000199 0 0.00498
0.000199 0 0.995
107 __NUM___billion 9
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
108 billion_dollar 0
0 0 0.000199
0 0 1
109 renew_sourc 8
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
110 wind_power 4
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
111 solar_power 2
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
112 moral_oblig 37
0.997 0 0.00179
0 0 0.00159
113 global_economi 21
0.00756 0 0.000199
0.992 0 0.000199
114 higher_standard 27
0.00697 0 0
0.993 0 0
115 young_american 12
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
116 colleg_educ 21
0.037 0.000398 0.00219
0.96 0 0
117 american_economi 20
0.000597 0.00597 0.972
0.0199 0 0.00199
118 fiscal_respons 37
0 0 0.0573
0 0 0.943
119 special_interest 19
0.00219 0 0.0149
0 0 0.983
120 wall_street 33
0 0 0.0344
0 0 0.966
121 main_street 3
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
122 financi_market 65
0 0 0.0573
0 0 0.943
123 world_greatest 65
0.000398 0.000199 0.0657
0 0 0.934
124 creat_job 10
0.0101 0.00159 0.112
0 0.000199 0.876
125 unit_state 100
0.0957 0 0.222
0.00438 0 0.678
126 main_street 56
0 0 0.178
0.000597 0 0.821
127 wall_street 2
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
128 tax_relief 5
0 0.0185 0.0312
0 0 0.95
129 middl_class 3
0.0832 0.00577 0.0971
0 0.0163 0.798
130 health_care 10
0.071 0.00498 0.0434
0.0794 0.0191 0.782
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