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As 2020 ends, I want to thank you for reading Political Wire and for your support.
I wish for you, and for all of us, a truly wonderful 2021.
We’re at the end of a year that brought a presidential impeachment trial, a global pandemic that has killed more than 340,000 Americans, a nationwide social movement for racial justice, the election of a new president and an outgoing president who still refuses to accept the results of that election even though the final tally wasn’t even close.
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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.
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— Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report
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— Larry Sabato, Center for Politics, University of Virginia
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— Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post
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