Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 188
Nothing to See Here
“In 2000 it was Florida, Florida, Florida. In 2024 it’s Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,” Axios reports.
“Both sides are treating Pennsylvania like the Ohio or Floridas of old — states where the winner is also the likely winner of the White House.”
“The Trump and Harris 2024 presidential campaigns are set to spend more than double on advertising in Pennsylvania than in any of the other six swing states.”
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.