The Real Joe

From this morning's Daily Beast:

Election 2008 has a favorite everyman: "Joe the Plumber," whose name was mentioned 26 times in last night's debate. Joe, it turns out, is a real person—Joe Wurzelbacher, from Holland, Ohio, whose 6-minute conversation with Barack Obama about taxes was fodder for McCain's attacks. "It's pretty surreal, man, my name being mentioned in a presidential campaign," Wurzelbacher said. You're tellin' us. But Politico's Ben Smith suggests that after a night of the candidates competing for Joe's affections, it all may be for naught: Joe, apparently, isn't registered to vote.

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