Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.10.22.VA originally had 3149 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 128 cue terms and an average lag of 22.2. 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 __NUM___dai 14
0.986 0.000199 0.0139
0 0 0
2 great_american 58
0.201 0 0.00119
0.797 0 0.000597
3 colin_powel 4
0.0209 0 0
0.979 0 0
4 final_dai 28
0.0848 0 0
0.915 0 0
5 phone_call 29
0.221 0 0.000199
0.779 0 0
6 tv_ad 5
0.0215 0 0.00418
0.974 0 0.000199
7 unit_state 52
0.0693 0 0.558
0.369 0 0.00378
8 problem_face 14
0.00299 0 0.379
0.08 0 0.538
9 american_peopl 2
0.000796 0 0.0115
0.0742 0 0.913
10 econom_crisi 13
0.000199 0 0.0917
0.00299 0 0.905
11 great_depress 8
0.000398 0 0.0171
0.000796 0 0.982
12 __NUM___job 39
0 0 0.0796
0 0 0.92
13 health_care 20
0.0169 0.00139 0.0509
0 0 0.931
14 year_ago 53
0.00378 0.000199 0.109
0.00199 0 0.885
15 week_ago 12
0.000199 0 0.0201
0.00199 0 0.978
16 difficult_time 6
0.000597 0 0.00617
0.00199 0 0.991
17 american_peopl 33
0.0446 0 0.0388
0.00259 0 0.914
18 unit_state 4
0.00816 0 0.0101
0.0458 0 0.936
19 great_challeng 14
0.00378 0 0.0173
0.047 0 0.932
20 senat_mccain 131
0.000199 0.000199 0.866
0 0 0.134
21 mccain_campaign 0
0 0 0.00418
0 0 0.996
22 week_ago 6
0.00458 0 0.00935
0 0 0.986
23 american_dream 83
0.153 0 0.0609
0.00299 0 0.783
24 american_peopl 5
0.00677 0 0.0103
0.146 0 0.837
25 challeng_face 21
0.0171 0 0.0989
0.0993 0 0.785
26 middl_class 1
0.000995 0.00299 0.147
0.0501 0 0.799
27 class_famili 0
0 0.000199 0.0289
0.0322 0.00299 0.936
28 john_mccain 27
0.000796 0 0.0975
0.00219 0 0.9
29 american_peopl 5
0.00557 0 0.0649
0.00219 0 0.927
30 econom_polici 26
0.000597 0 0.383
0.000199 0 0.617
31 wall_street 3
0 0 0.0796
0 0 0.92
32 main_street 2
0.000398 0 0.0153
0 0 0.984
33 econom_crisi 58
0.00776 0 0.283
0 0 0.709
34 unit_state 80
0.00776 0 0.203
0.000796 0 0.788
35 month_ago 2
0.000199 0 0.00955
0.00398 0 0.986
36 stimulu_plan 6
0 0 0.0101
0.000597 0 0.989
37 middl_class 17
0.00438 0.0103 0.955
0 0 0.0304
38 class_famili 0
0 0.000199 0.0137
0.00199 0.00975 0.974
39 senat_mccain 12
0 0 0.0635
0.000199 0.00358 0.933
40 stimulu_plan 5
0 0 0.0161
0 0 0.984
41 borrow_monei 15
0.00159 0 0.0155
0 0 0.983
42 job_loss 22
0 0 0.0191
0 0 0.981
43 feder_reserv 4
0 0 0.00318
0 0 0.997
44 senat_mccain 11
0.000199 0.00139 0.224
0 0 0.774
45 hard_work 14
0.00736 0 0.168
0 0 0.824
46 work_famili 0
0 0 0.00796
0.00617 0 0.986
47 econom_crisi 7
0.00119 0 0.12
0.00139 0 0.877
48 medic_bill 10
0.00677 0 0.242
0.00139 0 0.75
49 wall_street_bank 22
0 0.000199 0.12
0 0 0.879
50 unit_state 20
0.0874 0 0.114
0 0 0.799
51 american_job 5
0.00697 0.000796 0.0209
0.0812 0 0.89
52 tax_credit 1
0.00338 0 0.00418
0.0852 0.000597 0.907
53 unit_state 11
0.00856 0 0.0639
0.0623 0 0.865
54 tax_break 10
0 0 0.112
0.000398 0 0.888
55 job_oversea 5
0 0.000199 0.0155
0 0 0.984
56 good_job 7
0.0243 0.148 0.0139
0 0.000796 0.813
57 small_busi 6
0.000398 0.828 0.00438
0.000597 0.148 0.0187
58 capit_gain 8
0 0.0279 0
0 0.972 0
59 gain_tax 0
0 0.000199 0
0 1 0
60 door_open 9
0 0.00657 0
0 0.993 0
61 hire_worker 2
0 0.00199 0.000199
0 0.998 0
62 local_govern 39
0 0.0223 0.00378
0 0.974 0.000199
63 million_job 3
0 0.000995 0.00179
0 0.993 0.00378
64 health_care 4
0.00338 0.00199 0.00199
0 0.987 0.00537
65 creat_job 43
0.000796 0.0344 0.00995
0.000199 0.952 0.00239
66 tax_relief 9
0 0.0117 0.000398
0 0.983 0.00517
67 tax_cut 24
0 0.0177 0.00139
0 0.98 0.000597
68 fortun___NUM__ 16
0 0.0113 0
0 0.989 0
69 middl_class 7
0 0.00338 0.00259
0 0.994 0
70 tax_cut 1
0 0.000796 0.000597
0 0.996 0.00259
71 tax_rate 26
0 0.0219 0.000398
0 0.978 0
72 ronald_reagan 9
0.000398 0.00597 0.000995
0 0.992 0.000398
73 roll_back 7
0 0 0.989
0 0.00259 0.00876
74 bush_tax_cut 2
0 0 0.0113
0 0.000199 0.988
75 bill_clinton 15
0 0 0.0744
0 0 0.926
76 john_mccain 1
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
77 year_ago 12
0.000398 0 0.0346
0 0 0.965
78 bush_tax_cut 6
0 0.000398 0.0161
0 0 0.983
79 middl_class 29
0.00716 0.904 0.0191
0 0.000398 0.0697
80 class_american 0
0 0.0275 0
0.00259 0.904 0.0657
81 tax_relief 4
0 0.031 0.000597
0 0.93 0.0384
82 million_dollar 29
0 0.0561 0.000597
0 0.942 0.00159
83 includ___NUM__ 5
0 0.00537 0
0 0.995 0
84 small_busi 3
0 0.00318 0
0 0.997 0
85 busi_owner 0
0 0.000398 0
0 1 0
86 tax_increas 6
0 0.00318 0
0 0.997 0
87 payrol_tax 6
0 0.00438 0
0 0.996 0
88 incom_tax 4
0 0.00318 0
0 0.997 0
89 capit_gain 4
0 0.00239 0
0 0.998 0
90 gain_tax 0
0 0.00119 0
0 0.999 0
91 john_mccain 19
0.00358 0.000199 0.983
0 0.00955 0.00378
92 georg_bush 6
0.000199 0 0.0243
0.00139 0.000796 0.973
93 __MONEY___billion 63
0.000597 0.000398 0.903
0 0 0.0961
94 renew_sourc 4
0 0 0.0231
0 0 0.977
95 green_job 9
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
96 solar_panel 17
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
97 wind_turbin 2
0 0 0.00119
0 0 0.999
98 middl_east 18
0.00299 0 0.0107
0 0 0.986
99 __NUM___centuri 32
0.552 0 0.0195
0.00179 0 0.426
100 spend___MONEY___billion 20
0.315 0 0.00836
0.518 0 0.159
101 health_care_system 28
0.173 0.000199 0
0.826 0 0.000199
102 insur_compani 49
0.0133 0 0.000199
0.986 0 0
103 health_care_plan 38
0.00756 0 0
0.992 0 0
104 insur_compani 5
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
105 health_insur 15
0.00378 0 0
0.996 0 0
106 same_kind 30
0.00697 0 0
0.993 0 0
107 health_insur 2
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
108 prevent_care 12
0.00219 0 0
0.998 0 0
109 health_care 10
0.0346 0.000995 0.00756
0.957 0 0
110 earli_childhood 79
0.975 0 0
0.0253 0 0
111 childhood_educ 0
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
112 higher_standard 23
0.00478 0 0
0.995 0 0
113 special_interest 53
0.955 0 0.00955
0.035 0 0
114 young_peopl 6
0.0326 0 0.000398
0.967 0 0.000199
115 special_interest 5
0.0207 0 0.00756
0.971 0 0.000796
116 unit_state 317
0.751 0 0.0376
0.211 0 0.000199
117 common_purpos 41
0.127 0 0.00159
0.868 0 0.00378
118 unit_state 14
0.0565 0 0.0203
0.918 0 0.00517
119 futur_gener 36
0.0697 0 0.0404
0.871 0 0.0187
120 american_peopl 133
0.291 0.000199 0.237
0.446 0 0.0269
121 unit_state 213
0.261 0 0.59
0.0814 0 0.0673
122 main_street 60
0.000199 0 0.47
0.000796 0 0.529
123 wall_street 2
0 0 0.00736
0 0 0.993
124 tax_relief 5
0 0.0285 0.0233
0 0 0.948
125 middl_class 3
0.179 0.00398 0.0903
0 0.0259 0.701
126 health_care 10
0.163 0.00438 0.0308
0.172 0.0203 0.609
127 god_bless 80
0.778 0 0
0.222 0 0.000199
128 god_bless_america 5
0.0201 0 0
0.98 0 0
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