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Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.08.23 originally had 1921 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 73 cue terms and an average lag of 23.8. 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 month_ago 1
✓
0.993 0 0.00697
✗
0 0 0
2 __DATE___dai 5
✓
0.0123 0 0.000597
✗
0.986 0 0.000796
3 state_capitol 9
✓
0.00935 0 0.0354
✗
0.954 0 0.000796
4 unit_state 14
✓
0.352 0 0.0356
✗
0.588 0 0.0245
5 american_peopl 14
✓
0.183 0 0.0308
✗
0.737 0 0.0484
6 special_interest 16
✓
0.284 0 0.0358
✗
0.62 0 0.0603
7 work_peopl 6
✓
0.117 0 0.0205
✗
0.777 0 0.086
8 front_porch 14
✓
0.123 0 0.00856
✗
0.846 0 0.0225
9 fifti_state 6
✓
0.0145 0.00219 0.276
✗
0.676 0 0.0308
10 american_peopl 32
✓
0.185 0 0.13
✗
0.499 0 0.186
11 rise_cost 63
✓
0.269 0.00119 0.145
✗
0.432 0 0.153
12 work_peopl 2
✓
0.0187 0 0.00378
✗
0.69 0.000199 0.288
13 challeng_face 16
✓
0.142 0 0.00338
✗
0.669 0 0.186
14 foreign_polici 20
✓
0.21 0 0.00179
✗
0.759 0 0.0295
15 common_purpos 24
✓
0.0551 0 0
✗
0.944 0 0.000597
16 joe_biden 46
✓
0.0318 0 0.00318
✗
0.965 0 0
17 foreign_polici 27
✓
0.173 0 0.0269
✗
0.798 0 0.00199
18 middl_class 10
✓
0.112 0.00896 0.645
✗
0.213 0 0.0209
19 countri_back 28
✓
0.0402 0.00139 0.153
✗
0.233 0.00219 0.571
20 public_servant 24
✓
0.674 0 0.00716
✗
0.261 0 0.0579
21 joe_biden 22
✓
0.0454 0.00179 0.00557
✗
0.908 0 0.0394
22 work_harder 158
✓
0.739 0 0.00299
✗
0.258 0 0
23 young_man 14
✓
0.0396 0 0
✗
0.96 0 0.000199
24 car_accid 24
✓
0.0388 0.00338 0.0135
✗
0.944 0 0.000199
25 __NUM___year 44
✓
0.197 0 0.0177
✗
0.784 0 0.00119
26 joe_biden 17
✓
0.0376 0.000597 0.000995
✗
0.957 0 0.00338
27 return_home 22
✓
0.0255 0.000796 0.00955
✗
0.96 0.000398 0.00338
28 public_servic 61
✓
0.192 0 0.000796
✗
0.807 0 0.000398
29 attornei_gener 11
✓
0.0838 0.000796 0.000796
✗
0.913 0 0.00119
30 joe_biden 57
✓
0.0702 0.00239 0.00697
✗
0.92 0.000199 0
31 long_hour 91
✓
0.55 0 0.00299
✗
0.447 0.000199 0
32 work_class 6
✓
0.0137 0.000796 0.0281
✗
0.954 0 0.00318
33 fifteen_year 33
✓
0.0997 0 0.00318
✗
0.89 0 0.00736
34 year_ago 0
✓
0.00398 0 0.000199
✗
0.987 0 0.00856
35 american_commun 4
✓
0.0105 0 0
✗
0.989 0 0
36 joe_biden 8
✓
0.00358 0 0
✗
0.996 0 0
37 domest_violenc 68
✓
0.123 0.00119 0.0205
✗
0.855 0 0
38 american_peopl 38
✓
0.738 0 0.0695
✗
0.19 0 0.00338
39 colleg_tuition 2
✓
0.088 0 0.00498
✗
0.843 0 0.0645
40 minimum_wage 14
✓
0.0675 0.000995 0.00856
✗
0.866 0 0.0569
41 famili_leav 5
✓
0.0468 0.000398 0.00657
✗
0.909 0.000398 0.0372
42 nation_secur 42
✓
0.473 0 0.404
✗
0.118 0 0.00478
43 war_crimin 12
✓
0.0595 0 0.00239
✗
0.554 0 0.384
44 pass_law 21
✓
0.0396 0.000597 0.035
✗
0.596 0 0.329
45 chemic_weapon 4
✓
0.041 0.00119 0.0125
✗
0.586 0.000597 0.359
46 foreign_polici 31
✓
0.525 0 0.0177
✗
0.12 0 0.337
47 joe_biden 50
✓
0.0599 0 0.00478
✗
0.596 0 0.34
48 vice_presid 32
✓
0.00796 0 0.00179
✗
0.649 0 0.342
49 american_peopl 51
✓
0.0219 0 0.0149
✗
0.622 0 0.341
50 task_forc 7
✓
0.00179 0 0.00318
✗
0.64 0 0.355
51 big_oil 3
✓
0.00199 0 0.000995
✗
0.639 0 0.358
52 vice_presid 3
✓
0.0161 0 0
✗
0.641 0 0.343
53 american_peopl 8
✓
0.00318 0 0.000199
✗
0.654 0 0.343
54 joe_biden 6
✓
0.00219 0 0.000199
✗
0.656 0 0.342
55 foreign_relat 24
✓
0.0127 0.000199 0.00318
✗
0.648 0 0.336
56 campaign_trail 10
✓
0.341 0 0.00119
✗
0.651 0 0.00657
57 joe_biden 7
✓
0.0111 0 0
✗
0.983 0 0.00597
58 public_servant 6
✓
0.0291 0 0.000597
✗
0.967 0 0.00299
59 famili_man 50
✓
0.915 0.000995 0.000796
✗
0.083 0 0
60 good_job 43
✓
0.143 0.000398 0.106
✗
0.75 0 0.000796
61 peopl_live 3
✓
0.00776 0 0.0245
✗
0.864 0 0.103
62 tax_code 5
✓
0.00915 0.00697 0.106
✗
0.752 0 0.125
63 health_care 9
✓
0.0251 0.00279 0.0195
✗
0.737 0.00577 0.21
64 american_famili 8
✓
0.0468 0.0123 0.0756
✗
0.646 0.00756 0.211
65 energi_polici 11
✓
0.0163 0 0.452
✗
0.293 0.000199 0.239
66 foreign_oil 8
✓
0.0187 0 0.252
✗
0.0492 0 0.68
67 foreign_polici 28
✓
0.832 0 0.0458
✗
0.0557 0 0.0661
68 america_secur 13
✓
0.0255 0.00259 0.00438
✗
0.865 0 0.102
69 foreign_polici 40
✓
0.0911 0 0.00119
✗
0.848 0 0.0599
70 american_peopl 61
✓
0.0905 0 0.00119
✗
0.892 0 0.0163
71 joe_biden 5
✓
0.00537 0 0
✗
0.98 0 0.0147
72 vice_presid 81
✓
0.0515 0 0.00358
✗
0.936 0 0.00896
73 unit_state 3
✓
0.0231 0 0.0113
✗
0.954 0 0.0117
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 3