Geoffrey Skelley: “All in all, past surveys and research suggest that The Times’s latest story — which is more significant in scope and covers a more recent part of Trump’s…
Aaron Blake notes that the Democratic candidate has carried the Philadelphia suburbs by between 7 and 17 points in every presidential race since 2004. Trump’s deficit there in the new…
President Trump’s campaign wants Joe Biden’s campaign to allow a third party to inspect the ears of each debater for electronic devices or transmitters, Fox News reports. Save to FavoritesTwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail
“With five weeks left until the Nov. 3 election, many voters are eager to cast their ballots absentee and early. A growing number of registered voters in Brooklyn, however, received…
“Fox News is up to five times more likely to use the word ‘hate’ in its programming than its main competitors,” according to a new study. Also interesting: “We found…
Philippe Reines: “Donald Trump is a very bad debater. Donald Trump is very difficult to debate.” “These two seemingly contradictory statements are equally true. He’s a dangerous opponent. In 2016,…
“This summer, as controversial new procedures at the U.S. Postal Service snarled the nation’s mail delivery and stirred fears of how the agency would handle the election, rank-and-file workers quietly…
The Biden campaign slammed Facebook as “the nation’s foremost propagator of disinformation about the voting process,” Axios reports. Wrote Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon: “Rather than seeing progress, we…
Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) endorsed Doug Collins’ (R) bid for U.S. Senate, making him the most prominent state Republican to support the four-term congressman’s challenge to Sen. Kelly…
Nick Akerman, who served on the prosecution team during the 1970s Watergate investigation, told CNN he believed President Trump would likely face tax fraud charges upon leaving the White House….
New York Times: “In the last week, leading epidemiologists from respected institutions have, through different methods, reached the same conclusion: About 85 to 90 percent of the American population is…
“Retail bankruptcies, liquidations and store closings in the U.S. reached records in the first half of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated industry changes, particularly the shift to online shopping,”…
Politico: “The prosecution of Michael Flynn. A Senate investigation into the provenance of the Steele Dossier. The nascent federal probe of discarded absentee ballots in Pennsylvania.” “In recent days, the…
“It’s one thing to be a private citizen and not pay taxes because you’re, quote-unquote, smart. It’s another to do it as a leader of a country you’re supposed to…
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The Cook Political Report catches up to our consensus electoral map by moving Iowa and Ohio into the Toss Up column. “Iowa and Ohio join Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and…
Ryan Lizza: “After watching hours of Trump’s debates from 2015 and 2016, what comes across in hindsight is that he had an under-appreciated style, strategy, and message. He was not…
From the political dictionary: “snollygoster.” Save to FavoritesTwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who famously landed an airliner on the Hudson River in 2009, cut a new ad for the Lincoln Project saying President Trump “has failed us so miserably.”…
McKay Coppins: “The president’s alliance with religious conservatives has long been premised on the contention that he takes them seriously, while Democrats hold them in disdain. In speeches and interviews,…
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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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