Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.10.03 originally had 2145 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 91 cue terms and an average lag of 20.8. 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 joe_biden 28
0.618 0.0513 0.33
0 0 0
2 job_loss 42
0.00537 0.0123 0.718
0.00716 0.0127 0.244
3 __NUM___job 9
0 0 0.0997
0 0 0.9
4 john_mccain 13
0.000597 0 0.149
0 0 0.85
5 week_ago 5
0.000796 0 0.0169
0.000398 0 0.982
6 econom_polici 28
0.00338 0 0.0768
0 0 0.92
7 senat_mccain 12
0.0197 0.00816 0.031
0.00219 0 0.939
8 run_mate 3
0.842 0 0.0832
0.0187 0.000597 0.0553
9 singl_dai 24
0.155 0 0.0281
0.764 0.000199 0.0531
10 health_care 64
0.108 0.00438 0.467
0.363 0 0.0573
11 pai_job 20
0.0101 0.000199 0.423
0.0979 0.000398 0.469
12 bill_clinton 57
0.000796 0 0.386
0 0 0.613
13 put_peopl 6
0.00856 0 0.0247
0.000796 0 0.966
14 unit_state 11
0.00935 0 0.0378
0.00736 0 0.945
15 __MONEY___billion 29
0.000199 0.000199 0.0639
0 0 0.936
16 renew_sourc 8
0 0 0.00597
0 0 0.994
17 foreign_oil 36
0.000199 0 0.0482
0 0 0.952
18 tax_break 44
0.000199 0.000199 0.944
0 0 0.0559
19 job_oversea 5
0 0 0.0486
0 0 0.951
20 tax_break 8
0 0 0.0509
0 0 0.949
21 creat_job 4
0.000199 0 0.032
0 0 0.968
22 tax_haven 7
0 0 0.0289
0.000199 0 0.971
23 pai_tax 5
0 0 0.0227
0 0 0.977
24 tax_haven 5
0 0 0.0129
0 0 0.987
25 cost___MONEY__ 2
0 0 0.0119
0 0 0.988
26 __MONEY___billion 0
0.000199 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
27 tax_haven 10
0 0 0.236
0 0 0.764
28 tax_break 10
0.000796 0.034 0.725
0 0 0.24
29 small_busi 3
0.000995 0.0611 0.0229
0.000199 0.0342 0.881
30 econom_growth 6
0.00756 0.0137 0.0273
0.000995 0.0937 0.857
31 cut_tax 6
0 0.357 0.0213
0 0.108 0.513
32 work_famili 14
0.00139 0.433 0.00736
0 0.462 0.0963
33 tax_rate 5
0 0.0734 0.00159
0 0.892 0.0334
34 ronald_reagan 9
0.00119 0.0157 0.00119
0 0.958 0.0237
35 joe_biden 11
0.447 0.00239 0.364
0.00458 0.173 0.00955
36 perfectli_clear 14
0 0.000199 0.649
0.0201 0.00358 0.327
37 busi_cycl 32
0 0 0.049
0 0 0.951
38 bad_appl 9
0 0 0.00697
0 0 0.993
39 financi_crisi 2
0 0 0.00219
0 0 0.998
40 direct_result 3
0 0 0.00458
0 0 0.995
41 wall_street 11
0.00299 0 0.0322
0 0 0.965
42 unit_state 76
0.205 0 0.623
0.00159 0 0.171
43 __MONEY___billion 50
0.000995 0.0209 0.411
0.00199 0 0.565
44 tax_cut 2
0 0.000597 0.0488
0.000199 0.0193 0.931
45 big_corpor 2
0 0 0.00438
0 0.0191 0.977
46 fortun___NUM__ 15
0.000199 0.042 0.0127
0 0.0187 0.926
47 tax_cut 4
0.00119 0.00239 0.253
0 0.0513 0.692
48 econom_plan 23
0 0 0.642
0 0 0.358
49 __NUM___million 6
0.00139 0 0.0989
0 0 0.9
50 middl_class 1
0 0 0.0169
0.000597 0 0.982
51 senat_mccain 2
0.000199 0 0.0131
0.000398 0 0.986
52 difficult_time 26
0.00498 0 0.0915
0.000199 0 0.903
53 great_challeng 53
0.0147 0.000199 0.048
0.00478 0 0.932
54 unit_state 48
0.417 0.000199 0.168
0.0129 0 0.401
55 middl_class 205
0.371 0.218 0.294
0.0915 0 0.0255
56 scale_back 35
0.152 0.131 0.0259
0.366 0.209 0.117
57 middl_class 14
0.0667 0.00259 0.244
0.393 0.169 0.124
58 john_mccain 17
0.0689 0.00159 0.135
0.386 0.0724 0.337
59 middl_class 8
0.303 0.00199 0.0609
0.397 0.0462 0.19
60 unit_state 19
0.271 0 0.0115
0.647 0.000199 0.0706
61 monei_back 17
0.116 0 0.00458
0.862 0 0.0177
62 health_care_system 17
0.0261 0 0
0.974 0 0
63 prevent_care 26
0.00756 0 0
0.992 0 0
64 health_care 4
0.00119 0 0
0.999 0 0
65 same_kind 18
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
66 insur_compani 17
0.00358 0 0.000199
0.996 0 0
67 health_care_system 58
0.0175 0 0
0.982 0 0
68 insur_compani 11
0.00239 0 0.00995
0.988 0 0
69 long_term 22
0.541 0.000796 0.122
0.331 0 0.00597
70 educ_system 7
0.419 0 0.00358
0.55 0 0.0283
71 wage_job 20
0.0671 0 0.0336
0.87 0 0.0293
72 __NUM___centuri 3
0.0111 0 0.0541
0.873 0 0.0619
73 senat_mccain 29
0.0107 0.0458 0.528
0.316 0 0.0993
74 creat_job 25
0.0302 0.00119 0.475
0.0251 0.00378 0.464
75 __NUM___centuri 7
0.0107 0 0.0243
0.0521 0 0.913
76 financi_regul 30
0.00697 0 0.0442
0.0525 0 0.896
77 wall_street 47
0.000199 0 0.101
0 0 0.899
78 demand_account 17
0 0 0.0149
0 0 0.985
79 wall_street 2
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
80 spend_monei 55
0 0 0.0511
0 0 0.949
81 feder_budget 8
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
82 cost___MONEY__ 28
0 0 0.0191
0 0 0.981
83 __MONEY___billion 0
0 0 0.000398
0 0 1
84 iraqi_govern 5
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
85 __MONEY___billion 4
0 0 0.00517
0 0 0.995
86 wall_street 33
0.000597 0 0.0308
0 0 0.969
87 __NUM___centuri 39
0.0283 0 0.0306
0.000398 0 0.941
88 american_dream 14
0.0113 0 0.0131
0.0255 0 0.95
89 main_street 60
0.000597 0 0.0907
0.00179 0 0.907
90 wall_street 2
0.000199 0 0.00398
0.00239 0 0.993
91 futur_gener 50
0.159 0.000398 0.0685
0.00199 0 0.77
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