Playbook: “If the government stays open in October, then attention will increasingly turn toward elections on Nov. 4. — the pivotal electoral night of the year. In addition to the two big gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, we now have California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Democratic gerrymander on the ballot in the Golden State. Throw in New York’s unmissable mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani and all, and it should be a heck of a night.”
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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.