“As many as 100 seats could be in play,” but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “says the party can only afford to contest about 70. Candidates who want to keep the full backing of the DCCC will have to stick to the playbook,” Rolling Stone reports.
Said Pelosi: “Everybody in the 70 has to really perform, or else they know we’ll go someplace else.”
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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.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.