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...past couple months for McCain's slip in the Florida polls, but whose counsel and on-the-ground knowledge, say backers, has too often been ignored by the McCain campaign's national bosses. "The Senator's economic message has struck a chord with small-business owners here - Jose the Plumber, if you will." And that includes non-Cuban Latinos, she insists, who polls suggest could trend McCain's way in Florida because of their conservative stances on social issues like abortion...
When historians look back at the 2008 presidential landslide, they won't focus on the fact that Barack Obama - soon to be our 44th President and our first African-American Commander in Chief - ran a smart and steady campaign. They won't focus on William Ayers or Joe the Plumber or socialism or racism. They won't debate whether John McCain blew it by targeting Pennsylvania or by avoiding the press or by ignoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or by picking Sarah Palin as a running mate. They won't remember the robo-calls or "cling" or the Paris Hilton...
Four years ago, he was a figure of inspiration and division: Joe the Plumber and Bill Ayers in one large package. In the presidential campaign of 2004, one party saw Mike the Documentary Filmmaker as a spokesman for working-class rebelliousness, and the other as a symbol of left-wing extremism: Michael Moore, domestic alarmist...
...Plumber, Joe the •career in country music is considered by •McCain is surprised - "Joe's with us today. Joe, where are you? Where is Joe? Is Joe here with us today? Joe, I thought you were here today" - by absence of •publicist is hired by •a vote for Obama is called a vote for "the death of Israel...
...Among Ohio's white males, meanwhile, Obama appears to be falling faster: they now favor McCain by a 14-point margin, 56% to 42%. Just a week earlier, Obama was 10 points behind with this group. Joe Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. Joe the Plumber), who has come to represent something of a mascot or rallying cry for the McCain campaign, hails from a suburb of Toledo, Ohio...