Source: Fox News Forum
by David Marcus
“So, Joe and Eileen Bailey, that lovely fictitious couple from Massapequa, are back in the news. In case you missed it, HBO’s John Oliver has exposed that the prototypical voting couple who for decades served as the policy muse for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., does not actually exist. It has always been a bit of a winking open secret that Joe and Eileen are figments of Schumer’s imagination, but the senator has given his characters years of detailed backstory that all lead to one conclusion: The Democrat Party has utterly abandoned Joe and Eileen Bailey. In his 2007 book Positively American, Schumer gave us a thumbnail of these made-up middle-class swing voters, and it’s worth digging into a bit and comparing them to the Democrat priorities in 2025.” (08/16/25)