Actors Robbins, Sarandon hit the road for John Edwards

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Actors Robbins, Sarandon hit the road for John Edwards
January 7, 2008, filed by Jeff Mason
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DOVER, N.H. — Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins, famous for his part in hit film The Shawshank Redemption, is playing a new role: opening act for Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards.

The actor-director and his partner Susan Sarandon campaigned for the former North Carolina senator one day before New Hampshire voters go to the polls in a crucial vote that could shape the rest of the primary contests.

And though he may not be Oprah — who famously hit the trail for rival Democratic hopeful Barack Obama — Robbins had crowds cheering at a local Elks club when he complained Edwards was not getting enough attention for his second-place finish in Iowa behind Obama and just ahead of former first lady Sen. Hillary Clinton.

“Even today after John Edwards comes in second in Iowa, we’re still being told it’s a two-person race,” Robbins told the crowd. “We’re the voters, we decide who the front-runner is.”

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/07/actors-robbins-sarandon-hit-the-road-for-john-edwards/