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Tim Robbins figures that Clinton’s South Carolina win is about as important as winning Guam
By the all seeing eye of Odin, these guys are clueless!
Tim Robbins figures that Clinton’s South Carolina win is about as important as winning Guam
Tim Robbins is an actor who was very good in "Bull Durham." He's mostly known for playing Andy Dufresne in "The Shawkshank Redemption," but the role that best exemplifies his position in the present zeitgeist was his lead in "Bob Roberts." In that, he played a conservative candidate for the Senate who (spoiler alert) is revealed to the audience as a fraud when he taps his toes. It's a little heavy-handed.
Speaking of heavy-handed! Robbins appeared at a rally in Wisconsin on Monday on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, where he made a weird analogy.
"After the Southern primaries," he said, "you had called the election" -- apparently referring to the media. "And who's fooling who? Winning South Carolina in the Democratic primary is about as significant as winning Guam. No Democrat is going to win in the general election. Why do these victories have so much significance?"
This is a not-uncommon argument among supporters of Sanders. Yes, Hillary Clinton is winning. But she's winning largely because she ran up big margins in Southern states. That, the argument goes, bodes poorly for the general, since those Southern states usually vote Republican.
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Tim Robbins is an actor who was very good in "Bull Durham." He's mostly known for playing Andy Dufresne in "The Shawkshank Redemption," but the role that best exemplifies his position in the present zeitgeist was his lead in "Bob Roberts." In that, he played a conservative candidate for the Senate who (spoiler alert) is revealed to the audience as a fraud when he taps his toes. It's a little heavy-handed.
Speaking of heavy-handed! Robbins appeared at a rally in Wisconsin on Monday on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, where he made a weird analogy.
"After the Southern primaries," he said, "you had called the election" -- apparently referring to the media. "And who's fooling who? Winning South Carolina in the Democratic primary is about as significant as winning Guam. No Democrat is going to win in the general election. Why do these victories have so much significance?"
This is a not-uncommon argument among supporters of Sanders. Yes, Hillary Clinton is winning. But she's winning largely because she ran up big margins in Southern states. That, the argument goes, bodes poorly for the general, since those Southern states usually vote Republican.
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They seriously need to sit down and be quiet!
They both also backed Nader and gave us Bush, and not the alt band or hair style choice. 
Bernie would have LOVED to win in SC or anywhere else in the south. But since Hillary won, her wins must be belittled. 
SC and Guam? Guam is not a state. False equivalence much, Tim? 
