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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?

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 "officially" non-partisan, Mr. Goddard's personal views are Liberal in nature.

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.