“Well, there’s some Republicans now in the party who don’t, you know, don’t want to cross the aisle work with the Democrats. They don’t really want to do much of anything. I mean, they’re got some in the House that their primary goal is to get rid of John Boehner as speaker. I don’t know, I thought I was a conservative. But what I believed in was getting things done working with Democrats.”
— Former Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS), in an interview with MSNBC.
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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.