Conventional Wisdom

A political convention is like the prom for the pundits. Our pseudoscientific commentariat popularity contest.

We developed a highly scientific formula to measure their star power, counting blog, newspaper, magazine, and TV-news mentions so far this year, Google hits, and how many presidential debates (in the primaries or planned for the general election) they moderated. Then, each pundit's popularity in each category was calculated as a percentage of the highest score, and those five percentages were averaged. (So, theoretically, a dominating pundit who topped ... Full Story »

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Polly Briley
3.6
by Polly Briley - Oct. 1, 2008

Republican Talkers: 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 22, 25, 28, 29, 15, 40 Democratic Talkers: 5, `0, 16, 21, 24, 32, 33, 36 Status quo media: 6, 15, 20, 23, 26, 27, 30, 34, 37, 38, 39 Funny People 3, 7 Such blatantly liberal bias!

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Polly's Rating

Overall
3.6

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3.6
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3.0
Information
4.0
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3.0
Context
4.0
Popularity
3.5
Recommendation
3.0
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4.0
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