Chuck Todd: “Retirements don’t cause midterm outcomes. But they signal them.”
“Open seats remove incumbency advantage. They magnify the national mood. They accelerate waves. And when they pile up early, they tell you something polls often lag in capturing: incumbents don’t like what they see coming.”
“Fifty-one retirements in February are the political equivalent of tremors before an earthquake. Crossing the 50-year retirement threshold is extraordinarily rare.”
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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.