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Perceptions of Obama Shift with Strong Week

By Don Gonyea

Published May 10, 2008 at 5:00 AM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

One week ago, Barack Obama's campaign was shadowed with doubts about his durability as a candidate and his electability in the fall. But a big win in North Carolina and a strong showing in Indiana served him well, as did a steady flow of superdelegates in his direction. Now he appears poised to win the nomination.

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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.