George Ade Quotes
Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.
Ade, George. Fables in Slang. H.S. Stone & Company, 1899, p. 129.
Often a candidate will win even though there is a prevailing view that he/she is not well qualified and not worthy of the job. However he/she is not as bad as the other candidate. To win, all a candidate needs is to not be perceived as badly as his/her competitor.
George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog.
