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brown9-2 on Oct 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Italian Wikipedia shut down

It was a general reference referring to no one in particular, before the election of 2008.

sesqu on Oct 7, 2011 [–]

No, that was still Joe Sixpack and Average Joe and Joe from Main Street. Joe the Plumber was always a specific person, but it didn't matter while he was a proxy.

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