Last Wednesday bought the 3rd and final presidential debate and the star is not Obama or McCain but Joe the plumber from Ohio. He has become a media celebrity after finding himself the focus of the debate between the two White House rivals.
He is a tradesman who has worked 12-hour shifts for years and now plans to buy his own small plumbing business. The trouble for Joe the plumber is that this would take his earnings to more than $250,000 - making him a target of Obama’s plan to tax the wealthy.
Joe pointed this out to Senator Obama as the Democratic candidate campaigned in Toledo last weekend.
At the time he had no idea that the brief conversation between plumber and Presidential candidate would go around the world, after it became the centre piece of John McCain's attacks on his rival's economic policies.
First Mr McCain reminded Barack Obama that Joe the plumber did not want to vote for him because his taxes would rise under the Democrat. Then both candidates repeatedly spoke directly to Joe, as they faced off in their third and final debate.
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