Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites.

Competition from sites like The Drudge Report and The Political Simpleton slightly decreased after the 2006 purchase, due to the increase in advertising revenue.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City.

(Scribner, 1998), a politicalmanagement book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians fromboth parties.

In addition, Goddard’s essays on politics and publicpolicy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country,including the Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, San FranciscoChronicle, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and Christian ScienceMonitor.

PRAISE FOR POLITICAL WIRE”There are a lot of blogs and news sites claiming to understandpolitics, but only a few actually do.

The companys True Reach metric combines the performance of the original videos uploaded by politicians and political groups to sites such as YouTube and the copies and derivatives uploaded by audiences.

Political Wire is the first site we check when we’m looking for the latest political nugget.

“– Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report”Political Wire is one of only four or five sites that we check everyday and sometimes several times a day, for the latest political newsand developments.

– Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report”The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom — nicely packaged, constantly updated… What political junkie could ask for more?”.

– Larry Sabato, Center for Politics, University of Virginia”Political Wire is a great, great site.”.

– Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe”If we were on the proverbialdesert island and had only one web site to access, Political Wire wouldbe it.”.

A replay of the call will be posted in this same location on the web site shortly after the conclusion of the call.

– Dotty Lynch, CBS News political consultant”Taegan Goddard has a knack for digging out political gems that toooften get passed over by the mainstream press, and for delivering thelatest electoral developments in a sharp, no frills style that makeshis Political Wire an addictive blog habit you don’t want to kick.”.

– Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post”Political Wire is one of the absolute must read sites in the blogosphere.”.

– Glenn Reynolds, founder of Instapundit”we love Political Wire. It is a one stop shopping site for all the political information we need. It makes us sound brilliant so naturally we like it!”.

– Dick Morris, political consultant”we rely on Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It’s an eagerly anticipated part of our news reading.”.

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