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Joe The Plumber
Eschaton — To provide some clarity to Steve, he's a white guy who's about to have his pocket picked by a black guy. It doesn't have to be true.

In Defense of Plumberpalooza
Hit & Run — Steve Benen is shocked, shocked, that John McCain is hitting Florida with a "Joe the Plumber bus tour." McCain is exploiting Wurzelbacher for no reason. Under Obama's tax policy, Wurzelbacher would get a tax cut, not a tax increase. Indeed, I don't know the details of Wurzelbacher's finances, but there's reason to believe he'd end up far better off under Obama's tax plan than McCain's. But Wurzelbacher wasn't asking Obama about what his tax plans would do right now. It was a hypothetical. I'm getting ...

Desperation Time For McCain
Oliver Willis — John McCain is losing this campaign. I don’t want to hear anybody pretending otherwise. The election is 12 days away and John McCain is behind Barack Obama both nationally and in the swing states. McCain now chooses finally to find something wrong with George W. Bush. The McCain campaign would really like it if we collectively forgot the last 5 years and his tireless advocacy on behalf of President Bush. Too late. McCain is launching a “Joe The Plumber tour”. Seriously. If you’ve followed the campaign or read ...

Barbiegate™ Pushes GOP Collapse
The Democratic Daily — ... McCain’s chances but also the decisions made by Schmidt, who only a short time ago was hailed as the savior who brought discipline and unrepentant toughness to a listing campaign. “For better or for worse, our campaign has been fought from tactic to tactic,” one senior adviser glumly acknowledged to me in early October, just after Schmidt received authorization from McCain to unleash a new wave of ads attacking Obama’s character. “So this is the new tactic.” And, Steve Benin notes, in the Washington Monthly’s” Political Animal” blog ...