“Honestly, it’s baffling what he’s doing. I don’t know what his end game
is. I think if he wants to run for the U.S. Senate he should get in the
race. New Hampshire voters are not interested in begging candidates to run for office.”
— GOP strategist Dave Carney, quoted by the Boston Globe, on former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) toying with the idea of running for U.S. Senate from New Hampshire.
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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.