‘Joe the Plumber-politician’ speaks

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Samuel Wurzelbacher was in the house but not at his post.

“We’re looking for Samuel Wurzelbacher,” said the man running the candidate’s forum in Lorain, Ohio, late last month. He scanned the small crowd in the theater with a quick glance. “I saw him here a second ago.”

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