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Bush Makes Push for Two Imperiled Incumbents

By Don Gonyea

Published October 20, 2006 at 3:00 AM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

President Bush gives some campaign help to two Republican incumbents whose re-election is in doubt.

He was in Richmond, Va., Thursday night, where Sen. George Allen is trying to overcome charges of racial insensitivity.

Then he visited Pennsylvania in support of Rep. Don Sherwood, who has admitted cheating on his wife and has settled battery charges filed by his mistress.

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Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.