“More than 100 elected officials were recalled by voters or resigned from office in the face of recall votes in 2023, the highest number of public officials given the boot in more than a decade,” Pluribus News reports.
“The recent rash of recalls illustrates angry electorates — but, as has been the case through most of recent history, those sets of voters who ousted their officials tended to be focused on issues of local concern, rather than broad national trends.”
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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.