It also elicited harsh judgments from research and policy groups that said he had misinterpreted or misused data, and had politicized the debate himself.
It is fairly obvious why the gene data have been politicized.
The city hasn't studied the demographic composition of the rent-controlled stock in more than a decade, as there are concerns from tenants groups about how the data would be politicized.
Joseph Rich, a civil rights lawyer who has been invited by Democrats to testify and was among those given an early copy of the report, said it provided hard data that the division was politicized in the Bush years.
The fact that we don't know the exact number, because the very data (both public and private) are politicized and contested, says a lot.
But it also keeps Mr. Bush exposed to the election-year charge that his White House politicized the work of the intelligence agencies, stretching the data to justify its decision to topple Saddam Hussein and perhaps paying insufficient attention to other threats.
Paul and DeMint are willing to set a six-month time lag so that the data need not create panic or become immediately politicized.
"The President's Commission has quickly politicized its work by asking states for an incredible amount of voter data that I have, time and time again, refused to release," he said in a statement.
"The president's commission has quickly politicized its work by asking states for an incredible amount of voter data that I have, time and time again, refused to release," Schedler said in a statement.
Given that much of this debate has been politicized, misinformed or based on outright myths, it is important to anchor it in sound analysis based on hard data.
"Iraq became politicized".
