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McCain Denies Affair with Lobbyist

By Don Gonyea, Steve Inskeep

Published February 21, 2008 at 6:43 AM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

At a press conference in Ohio where he is campaigning, Sen. John McCain responds to a New York Times report about his relationship with a female lobbyist. He denied having a romantic relationship with the woman.

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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.

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