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My dear father, Stephen Goddard, passed away yesterday afternoon.
So much of what you see on Political Wire was influenced by him. Although I was just a child, he took hours to explain the historical importance of the Watergate hearings and how our system of government worked. In 1976, we sat in front of the television with yellow legal pads counting up electoral votes as Walter Cronkite called each state in the presidential election.
When the Hartford Times shut down — a newspaper where he once worked as a reporter — he taught me about the importance of journalism to the workings of government. We even spent time thinking about how to resurrect the Times in the digital media era.
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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.
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