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Obama Counterattacks on Eve of Pa. Primary

By Don Gonyea

Published April 21, 2008 at 3:00 AM PDT

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

The Democratic presidential candidates are busy preparing for Tuesday's primary in Pennsylvania in the midst of a long and bitter race for the nomination. Barack Obama has been working to maintain his lead in pledged delegates and is looking ahead to a possible contest with presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.

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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.