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What is Trump’s Political Calculus?

May 30, 2012 at 2:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Frank Rich: “There is no more naked celebrity in America than Donald Trump. He doesn’t do subtlety. He doesn’t do ‘thought.’ To say he has a political calculus is a wild overstatement. His strategy amounts to no more than junior high school algebra. The equation is: Trump + infantile public statement x infinite repetitions on TV and Twitter = maximum publicity for flailing Trump products and insatiable Trump ego.”

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Levi Johnston is Penniless

May 24, 2012 at 4:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Levi Johnston, father to Sarah Palin’s grandson, “has been forced to move in with his mother after reportedly squandering his $1 million earnings,” the Daily Mail reports.

“The 22-year-old wasted the eye-watering sum on ‘guns, boats and four-wheelers’… The spending has left him penniless and he has now moved in with his mother, a convicted prescription drug dealer, at her home in Alaska.”

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Chelsea Clinton Struggles at NBC

April 17, 2012 at 12:03 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

BuzzFeed has a deep look into the state of Chelsea Clinton’s job at NBC, which has so far yielded minimal returns for the network.

“Almost
everyone I spoke to for this story — from within NBC and at other
networks as well — agree that that problem is that she won’t talk about
the one thing that makes her undeniably compelling… The must ask
questions: What was it like to live through that in the White House?
What did you know, and when did you know it? How pissed were you at your
father? How do you feel about marriage? Should your mother have
stayed?”

“Eventually, Chelsea will have to answer the
questions listed above, and she’ll likely do so on NBC. (My hunch is
that NBC’s chief Steve Capus’s gamble will prove brilliant in the long
run.) But right now, we’re stuck in another awkward Chelsea Clinton
phase, a kind perpetual sheltered adolescence, still getting to know you
after all these years. And who wants to watch that?”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan 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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