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'Joe the Plumber' becomes a national fixture

Oct. 16, 2008
The Ohio resident who met Obama on Sunday is mentioned 26 times during the debate. The star of Wednesday night's final presidential debate was neither Sen. John McCain nor his rival, Sen. Barack Obama. It was "Joe the Plumber," aka Joe Wurzelbacher, a brawny, T-shirt-clad plumber whose...
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