Who is Joe the Plumber?

A story from the AP says, he is Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio man looking to buy a plumbing business who came to symbolize the notion of "spreading the wealth" in Wednesday night's third and final presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

Earlier this week, when Wurzelbacher got a chance to speak with Obama when the candidate visited Toledo, he told Obama that his tax plan would keep him from buying the business that currently employs him.

"It's not that I don't like to be taxed. You have to be taxed," Wurzelbacher said Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America." "But to _ just because you work a little harder, to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary."

Sensing an opening in the debate, McCain cited Obama's exchange with the plumber when the candidates were asked to explain why their economic plans are better than their opponent's. McCain said Obama's plan would stop entrepreneurs from investing in new small businesses and keep existing ones from growing.