Joe the Plumber

All this week we’ve been hearing from a panel of seven voters in Lake County, Ohio. John Hockenberry spent time there over the weekend to get a better sense of what matters to the people in this swing county of Ohio, which  has been on the winning side of every presidential election since 1964. Mom and […]

In Ohio, Super Tuesday not only meant a Republican presidential primary but a race that pitted eight-term Congressman Dennis Kucinich against 15-term Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. After the votes were tallied, Kucinich came up short. Kaptur now faces the GOP primary winner, Samuel Wurzelbacher, the man who became known as “Joe the Plumber” during the 2008 […]

Yesterday was the deadline to file taxes in the U.S. and in what has become a tradition, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their tax returns to the public. The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich   shares his findings.