Political Wire
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Political Wire was one of the first political blogs. It is published by Taegan D. Goddard, a former policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and governor and the co-author of a widely-hailed political book, You Won - Now What? The site is arguably the most influential, freely-available source of political news and information available on the Internet.
To differentiate itself from many other political blogs, Political Wire integrates dozens of RSS feeds in a web-based news aggregator to live up to its tagline: "All the political news in one place." The aggregator compiles the most recent political headlines from more than a dozen sources.
In 2006, Goddard announced a content partnership with Congressional Quarterly. He also added a roster of well-known guest contributors, including Stuart Rothenberg, Dick Morris, Mudcat Saunders, Robert Reich, George Soros and others.
While Political Wire is non-partisan, Mr. Goddard's personal views are to the left. However, his balance of content is demonstrated by the large number of both left- and right-wing blogs that link to him.
[edit] Predecessor site
Political Wire is directly descended from Political Insider, a political website published by Goddard and the co-author of his book, Christopher Riback. The site's daily briefing was syndicated by about a dozen websites from 1998 to 2000. The name Political Insider was recently revived as a companion site for (Political Insider) that is now published by Congressional Quarterly.
[edit] Other sites
During 2007, Goddard also launched two additional sites: Political Books (Political Books), a blog dedicated to the political publishing industry, and Political Stuff (Political Stuff), an e-commerce site of political memorabilia.
