John Harwood: “One week ago, three distinct but overlapping currents combined to shift tidal forces in America’s midterm elections — and smash the Republican Party’s congressional fortress.”
“Those currents were demographic change, Democratic mobilization and disaffection with President Trump. As is clearer now than on election night, they produced a blue wave that has fundamentally altered the political calculus of the capital.”
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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.
