“I suspect that it is going to hurt him, but since none of us seem to understand what the Trump phenomenon really is, it is hard to know.”
— Newt Gingrich, in an interview with the Boston Globe, on Donald Trump’s most recent controversial comments.


“I suspect that it is going to hurt him, but since none of us seem to understand what the Trump phenomenon really is, it is hard to know.”
— Newt Gingrich, in an interview with the Boston Globe, on Donald Trump’s most recent controversial comments.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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