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- Title: Off Base: Is the Future of the GOP Scots-Irish Or Indian-American? (Politics) (Republican Party of America)
- Author : The American Conservative
- Release Date : January 15, 2008
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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SAMUEL "JOE" WURZELBACHER didn't plan on becoming famous. Or getting a book deal. Or being offered a Nashville recording contract. When Barack Obama came to his Holland, Ohio neighborhood during the fall campaign, Wurzelbacher simply asked the candidate an honest question about his tax policy, and Obama gave him an honest answer about "spread[ing] the wealth around." But from that moment on, "Joe the Plumber" became the symbol of John McCain's presidential campaign, a cultural totem that Republican strategists hoped would energize white, working-class voters--"Average Joes," you might say. McCain's handlers knew what they were doing when they had their candidate repeatedly invoke Joe, and his question about Obama's tax policy, in the last presidential debate. They also knew what they were doing when they elevated Joe from local plumber to campaign surrogate.