A new Monmouth poll finds Jeb Bush nominally leading the GOP presidential pack nationally with 15%, followed by Donald Trump at 13%, and Ted Cruz at 9%.
The next group of candidates includes Scott Walker at 7%, Mike Huckabee at 7%, Marco Rubio at 6%, Ben Carson at 6%, and Rand Paul at 6%. The rest of the field garners no more than 2% of the vote.
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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.