A new Public Policy Polling survey in Colorado finds Sen. Mark Udall (D) just ahead of challenger Cory Gardner (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 44% to 43%.
In the race for governor, Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) edges challenger Bob Beauprez, 44% to 43%.


A new Public Policy Polling survey in Colorado finds Sen. Mark Udall (D) just ahead of challenger Cory Gardner (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 44% to 43%.
In the race for governor, Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) edges challenger Bob Beauprez, 44% to 43%.
“Ron DeSantis is taking his growing clout among national Republicans on the road, where he’ll be the main attraction at events for Senate and gubernatorial candidates in key races across…
“Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, is aiming to delay his testimony before a Fulton County special grand jury examining Georgia’s 2020 elections,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports….
“Approximately two years’ worth of text messages sent and received by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection,”…
Associated Press: “Biden and top national security officials speak less about counterterrorism and more about the political, economic and military threats posed by China as well as Russia. There’s been…
“As President Biden continues an historic stretch of legislative success, plus a successful operation that killed an al Qaeda leader, he may be homing in on another major foreign policy…
“The Republican Governors Association is going to put at least $11 million into commercials to ensure that Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s successor is of the same political party,” the Arizona…
In more good news for President Joe Biden, the centrist Democratic Blue Dog Coalition is pledging to “move swiftly to send the bill to the President’s desk,” Punchbowl News reports….
New York Times: “Mr. Biden emerged from medical isolation to a new political world. Suddenly, the administration that could not get anything right, that could not catch a break, was…
“Policymakers in Washington are promoting electric vehicles as a solution to climate change. But an uncomfortable truth remains: Battery-powered cars are much too expensive for a vast majority of Americans,”…
“Extreme heat is paralyzing Iraq, forcing shutdowns in the overstretched power grid as authorities extend public holidays to protect employees from 125-degree temperatures,” the Washington Post reports. “Iraq ranks fifth…
Jonathan Bernstein: “It has been clear for some time that Republicans might ruin their own chances by picking terrible candidates. But recent primaries in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio and…
“The consumer outlook for inflation decreased significantly in July amid a sharp drop in gas prices and a growing belief that the rapid surges in food and housing also would…
The Republican Accountability Project is running a brutal new ad against Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R). Save to Favorites
Retired Gen. David Petraeus writes in The Atlantic about why the U.S. underachieved across its 20 years in Afghanistan and “why one of our signature campaigns resulted in such unending…
“Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republican legislators illegally drew those states’ congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very…
“Former President Donald Trump told his top White House aide that he wished he had generals like the ones who had reported to Adolf Hitler, saying they were ‘totally loyal’…
“If you do this, you’re gonna have a fucking war.” — Gen. Mark Milley, quoted by the New Yorker, after Donald Trump urged a missile strike on Iran after he…
Wall Street Journal: “As the summer draws to a close, Mr. Biden is planning to spend some time away in August, starting later this week with a trip to Kiawah…
Paul Manafort, who served as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, told Insider “that in 2016 he shared polling data from the Trump campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate with…
“Democrats in competitive election races were quick to promote their sweeping new climate and economic package after it passed the Senate on Sunday in a party-line vote, with all Republicans…
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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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