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...name is James, and I am a former Real American. I grew up in Monroe, Mich. (pop. 22,076), just across the state line from Holland, Ohio, where lives Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber, campaign 2008's latest shorthand for Real America. My dad--also named Joe--drove a beer and wine delivery truck and hunted deer. We went ice fishing and bowling. The first album I ever bought was Bob Seger's Live Bullet...
...useful" part, at least, is confirmed by John McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer's argument that her candidate would win in "real Virginia," as opposed to the D.C. suburbs. And it certainly had something to do with why McCain and Barack Obama mentioned Joe the Plumber in the final presidential debate more than 20 times and why McCain praised him on the stump as though he were Ronald Reagan...
...under Obama, that he owed back taxes and that his first name was actually Samuel. But you can see why he made such an attractive campaign mascot. Joe the Software Consultant or Joe the Staples Manager would not tick off nearly as many populist boxes as Joe the Plumber: beefy, hails from the heartland, works with his hands. The kind of guy Chris Matthews, Bill O'Reilly and Joe Scarborough lionize as "regular" and "real." If you can't convince Joe, then you, sir, are an élitist wuss...
...baseball hitting the bat that he just hit a home run. It was a victory, but McCain’s zinger was just as short-lived as a home run. The debate moved on, the topics changed, and the one-liner became a soundbyte, not a game-changer.Joe the Plumber was also a good move. McCain was able to take a confusing argument about Obama’s tax plan and make it resonate in the age of the ten-second soundbyte. Although most Americans do not make $250,000 a year, many Americans aspire to do so. Thus, most...
Without a single mention of Joe the Plumber, four undergraduate residents of Quincy House took the stage in the House’s dining hall and fielded questions in a mock presidential debate last night. More than 40 people listened to Grant W. Dasher ’09, Matthew P. Cavedon ’11, Elizabeth B. Graber ’11, and Ari R. Hoffman ’10 answer questions posed to them by Eric B. Lomazoff, the Quincy House resident tutor in government. The debaters opened the evening with thanks to the moderator and the hosts...