Ohio man, Joe Wurzelbacher, known worldwide as “Joe the Plumber”, stumped for the McCain-Palin ticket throughout Southwest Ohio on Tuesday, marking his debut on the campaign trail. He previously had not endorsed McCain, and when he first caught the nation’s attention, he said his vote would be private.

Wurzelbacher came onto the national stage - from obscurity to political celebrity - when Senator Barack Obama told him during a campaign stop he wanted to “spread the wealth around,” and became household name when he was mentioned dozens of times during the final presidential debate. McCain depicted him as the American “everyman” who would struggle under Obama’s tax plan.

Wurzelbacher, whose accidental and wholly improbable journey brought him to the center of the 2008 presidential campaign, told his fans: “The bottom line is I am going to vote for a real American; I’m going to vote for John McCain.”

To people, who gathered to get a look at the most famous American in politics who is not running for anything, Wurzelbacher’s main message was to vote for the American dream of small business ownership. He said: “I’m not speaking for everybody, but there’re quite a few people out there I am speaking for. This is not the time to raise taxes.”

While Wurzelbacher was touring Ohio in a bus paid for by the Republican National Committee, the Obama campaign put out a memo arguing that “Joe the Plumber” would benefit from the Obama plan. A male plumber in Ohio with one dependent, the Obama memo said, would get a $1,262 tax cut under Obama’s plan, and a $472 tax cut under McCain’s plan.