"Political jokes..some of them get elected" (1958)

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Any source for this quote, one that Eliot Spitzer added to his high school  
yearbook? It's not in Fred's YBQ.
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FYI, I tried Newspaperarchive and I get a blank screen. It ain't working  
right now. On the plus side, Newspaperarchive changed the "years" problem and  
you can now search by date. But the program still sucks. Many times,  I'll 
request the next page of search results and get the same page  returned. Or I'll 
press "search" and get returned to the home page again. Then I  try again and 
get "The page you are trying to view cannot be displayed." Is it  like that for 
everybody out there?
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_http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2006/11/spitzers_favori.p
hp#comments_ 
(http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2006/11/spitzers_favori.php#comments) 
The worst thing about political jokes is that some of them get  elected.
_Anonymous_
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_Vocabula Bound: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and  Oddities: Essays on 
the English Language... - Page 254_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0972993762&id=AOLVDEJSydgC&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&dq="political+jokes"+and+elected&ie=
ISO-8859-1&sig=jVFhSnFf8GoEkCs52SFV_mxko3o) 
edited by Robert Hartwell Fiske  - 2004 - 304 pages
Now personally, I don't believe in  political jokes. I've seen too many of 
them 
get elected.  Pianist and comedian Victor Borge has observed that “laughter 
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NEWSPAPERARCHIVE IS WORKING NOW! 
PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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23 October 1958, Ada (OK) Weekly News, pg. 4, col. 4:
The trouble with political jokes is that they often get elected to  office.
-- Tony Pettito (Tony Petito, from a movie?--ed.)
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3 July 1960, Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio), "Main Stem" by Bud Harsh,  
pg. 6:
The Main Stem Philosopher opines:
"The trouble with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected to  
office."
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8 November 1960, Charleston (WV) Gazette, George Lawless' The Gazetteer,  
section 2, pg. 13, col. 1:
The trouble with most political jokes is they usually get  elected.

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