Joe the Plumber, who questioned Obama’s tax proposals during the 2008 campaign, has died at 49

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I didn’t even realize he was a real person. I thought that “Joe the Plumber” was just a name they used in the debates to signify some kind of common person.

I can see that, especially since the term Joe Six-pack is as you described, a common blue collar person.