Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.04.22 originally had 2206 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 63 cue terms and an average lag of 32.1. 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 senat_clinton 6
0.587 0 0.413
0 0 0
2 work_hard 44
0.972 0 0.00458
0.0167 0 0.00677
3 big_citi 9
0.0667 0 0
0.933 0 0
4 small_town 2
0.0173 0 0
0.983 0 0
5 long_time 48
0.207 0 0.0115
0.781 0 0.000199
6 small_amount 50
0.173 0.000995 0.0961
0.724 0 0.00557
7 hundr_mile 19
0.0603 0 0.00856
0.844 0.000199 0.0874
8 __DATE___morn 6
0.0181 0 0.0281
0.859 0 0.0951
9 lose_sight 49
0.0404 0.000199 0.314
0.556 0 0.089
10 young_man 117
0.71 0 0.000199
0.29 0 0.000597
11 north_carolina 6
0.0663 0 0.00299
0.931 0 0.000199
12 medic_bill 18
0.119 0 0.00498
0.874 0 0.00259
13 health_insur 6
0.0235 0 0.0199
0.95 0 0.00637
14 kitchen_tabl 33
0.719 0 0.0137
0.266 0 0.00119
15 insur_premium 11
0.038 0 0.00935
0.941 0 0.0117
16 front_yard 30
0.07 0 0.00597
0.915 0 0.00856
17 john_mccain 94
0.00478 0 0.969
0.0213 0 0.00498
18 georg_bush 36
0 0 0.0494
0 0 0.951
19 iraq_polici 1
0 0 0.000597
0 0 0.999
20 exit_strategi 16
0 0 0.00995
0 0 0.99
21 john_mccain 39
0 0 0.0233
0 0 0.977
22 georg_bush 3
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
23 econom_polici 1
0 0 0.00159
0 0 0.998
24 tax_cut 22
0 0.000199 0.0362
0 0 0.964
25 john_mccain 36
0.000199 0 0.0211
0 0 0.979
26 white_hous 8
0 0 0.00398
0 0 0.996
27 georg_bush 3
0 0 0.000796
0 0 0.999
28 econom_polici 1
0 0 0.00139
0 0 0.999
29 john_mccain 24
0.000995 0 0.0159
0 0 0.983
30 health_care 23
0.0219 0 0.0265
0.000796 0 0.951
31 futur_gener 24
0.0103 0 0.0191
0.0171 0 0.953
32 john_mccain 17
0.00378 0 0.0155
0.0219 0 0.959
33 health_care 62
0.139 0.000995 0.665
0.00716 0 0.187
34 foreign_oil 13
0.00119 0 0.349
0.00716 0 0.642
35 spend_million 82
0.0235 0 0.105
0.00159 0 0.869
36 statu_quo 8
0.414 0 0.43
0.0195 0 0.137
37 health_care 8
0.0231 0 0.0468
0.38 0 0.55
38 washington_lobbyist 64
0.0159 0 0.38
0.0498 0 0.554
39 real_american 17
0.00716 0 0.0229
0.047 0 0.923
40 health_care 18
0.499 0 0.0983
0.0199 0 0.383
41 renew_energi 4
0.104 0 0.0406
0.485 0 0.37
42 work_american 20
0.0975 0.000398 0.156
0.461 0 0.285
43 govern_back 61
0.375 0 0.133
0.433 0 0.0593
44 nation_secur 18
0.0137 0 0.794
0.0187 0 0.174
45 georg_bush 11
0 0 0.0569
0.00597 0 0.937
46 john_mccain 2
0.00318 0 0.00299
0.00597 0 0.988
47 tough_question 28
0.0486 0 0.0322
0.00896 0 0.91
48 __NUM___centuri 36
0.00756 0 0.0842
0.0123 0 0.896
49 nuclear_weapon 4
0 0 0.00517
0.0169 0 0.978
50 american_peopl 113
0.795 0 0.0434
0.0105 0 0.151
51 red_state 47
0.293 0 0
0.707 0 0
52 blue_state 2
0.00338 0 0
0.997 0 0
53 polit_gain 13
0.0241 0 0
0.976 0 0
54 nativ_american 48
0.221 0 0.000398
0.778 0 0
55 singl_dai 204
0.932 0 0.00736
0.0609 0 0
56 public_servic 28
0.141 0 0.000995
0.858 0 0.000199
57 statu_quo 65
0.534 0 0.0531
0.412 0 0.000199
58 global_economi 73
0.334 0 0.0185
0.63 0 0.0177
59 health_care 12
0.155 0 0.00318
0.827 0 0.0139
60 north_carolina 6
0.0458 0 0.000199
0.944 0 0.0103
61 kitchen_tabl 12
0.0712 0 0.00557
0.92 0 0.00358
62 god_bless 172
0.829 0 0.000199
0.17 0 0
63 unit_state 2
0.0135 0 0.00279
0.983 0 0.000199
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