Maureen Dowd joins Chris Riback on Political Wire Conversations for a discussion on the 2016 campaign and her new book, The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics.
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The Washington Post‘s Robert Costa is our guest on the latest episode of Political Wire Conversations.
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GOP strategist Stuart Stevens joins us on Political Wire Conversations for a great discussion about what Donald Trump has done to the Republican party.
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Jim Lehrer joins us on Political Wire Conversations for a fascinating discussion on the 2016 presidential campaigns with a look towards the upcoming presidential debates. There’s simply no one who knows more about presidential debates.
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Chris Riback and I discuss the state of the presidential election on the latest episode of Political Wire Conversations.
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John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation and author of the great new book, Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History, joined us on Political Wire Conversations.
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Chris Riback talks with CNN political analyst Van Jones on the latest episode of Political Wire Conversations:
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In this episode of Political Wire Conversations, Chris Riback talks to advance man Josh King about his new book, An Advance Man’s Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political Suicide, and the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Chris Riback and Taegan Goddard discuss how the Republican presidential nominating process might end.
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Rick Shenkman joins us on Political Wire Conversations to explain why so many of us are susceptible to politicians’ manipulations – and why so many don’t seem to care.
Shenkman is the author of Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics. Highly recommended.
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In the latest episode of Political Wire Conversations, Chris Riback talks to pollster Mark Blumenthal about the role of polling in American politics.
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We’re kicking off the second season of Political Wire’s podcast with a discussion of how Donald Trump broke the Republican party.
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Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore (R) joins us on the Political Wire podcast for a discussion of changed political landscape after the 2014 midterm elections.
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David King from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government joined us on the Political Wire podcast for a great preview of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia Center for Politics joined us on the Political Wire podcast for a look at what might happen if the 2014 midterm elections go into overtime. It’s a great conversation.
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Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report joins us on the Political Wire podcast for a great look at the 2014 midterm elections and why he thinks Republicans are favored to take control of the U.S. Senate.
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Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg joins us on the Political Wire podcast for a look at the midterm elections, one in which he sees now Democrats “more likely to hold control of the U.S. Senate than not.”
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Jules Witcover, author of The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power, joins us on the Political Wire podcast for a discussion of the person “just a heartbeat away” from the most powerful job in the world.
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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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