Joe The Plumber Makes House Calls

Our ol' buddy Samuel "Not actually Joe, Not really a plumber" Wurzelbacher is running for the House in Ohio, taking on Democrat Marcy Kaptur in OH-9.

The man known as “Joe The Plumber” is running for Congress.

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) declaring his intention to seek the congressional seat held by Rep. Marcy Kaptur in Ohio’s 9th district.

Wurzelbacher rose to fame during the 2008 presidential election, when he asked then-Sen. Barack Obama how his tax policies would affect the American dream and the McCain campaign started using his story on the trail.

Good luck with that, Joe.  Kaptur's won big for 18 years now.   Granted, redistricting may make the 9th competitive, but the GOP is too occupied with getting rid of Dennis Kucinich, and to do that they have to railroad as much of the Lake Erie urban vote into Kaptur's district as possible to make the Toledo-Cleveland suburbs as red as Ohio State's jerseys.

It'll probably work, too.  Joe on the other hand, well he's got about as much chance of winning in Kaptur's district as I do.