To answer two of Mr. McGovern’s questions: (1) The article states that some of McCain’s “top advisors” were “convinced the relationship had become romantic.” That is as good as declaring the affair had occurred, without taking direct responsibililty for the declaration. (2) Who else but Mr. Obama’s staffers or other insiders could presume to know how Mr. Obama would vote on such obscure matters as “Plan Columbia” and free trade with Columbia? People not involved with Mr. Obama’s campaign would not even know that Mr. Obama had taken positions on these obscure issues.