Political Wire.

Previewing the mid-terms with Taegan Goddard.

(Interview with Taegan Goddard, founder and editor of Political Wire. Recorded 27 April, 2026. Produced by Dale Eisinger.)

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Back in the pre-internet dark ages of election night broadcasts, the major television news outlets relied, in large measure, on AP and UPI newswires cranking out updates on the latest results. There were actually “runners” who ripped the reports off the wires and rushed them to the network news “anchors”.

Taegan Goddard provides a similar service for political news, every day, 365 days a year. A typical day might consist of 20 or 30 political news “items”, most of them concerning U.S. politics.

People who follow American politics closely follow three sources religiously: UVA’s Center for Politics, The Cook Political Report and Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire. With the mid-terms upcoming, we asked Taegan to give us his assessment of the political landscape at this stage of the campaign(s). The result is this podcast.

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