“President Biden appears to be making serious inroads with America’s oldest voters — and could become the first Democrat to win the demographic in over two decades,” Axios reports.
“If current polling pans out, November’s election between two historically old candidates would upend long-held assumptions about how Americans vote.”
“The Biden campaign is attempting to seal the support of a group that consistently votes at higher rates than any other demographic.”
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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.