By:
Lynn Elber, AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Bill Cosby entered the polling booth in his neighborhood last week, he carried with him photographs of his late parents and Jimmy, the kid brother who died in childhood.
"I pulled out the pictures, pulled the curtain shut. And I said, 'You guys are gonna vote.' And they did, on one piece of paper," Cosby said.
He couldn't resist delivering a punch line for fellow voters in Shelburne Falls, Mass. — "I yelled out, 'How do you spell plumber?'" — even as he exulted in casting his ballot for the first African-American president.
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