G. Elliot Morris: “Over the past few months, I have been working behind the scenes on a big interactive map of Trump’s approval at the local level. National polls are useful for tracking the overall trend, but they can obscure just how much variation exists across the country.“
“A 40% national approval rating doesn’t mean 40% of people everywhere approve, and where disapproval is higher tells us something important for narration and electoral strategy.”
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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.