I had never heard that song until I saw Sanders’s ad above. It is a good song, and I normally am not even a big Simon and Garfunkel fan.
What I find interesting is that there are a number of lines in the song that fit the 2016 candidates, on both sides:
“I’ve got some real estate here in my bag”: Trump
“Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike”: Christie
“We’ll marry our fortunes together”: Bill and Hillary Clinton
It’s not in the ad above, but the line “Michigan seems like a dream to me now” is in the full song, and could fit either Clinton or Sanders after last week.
Again, not in the ad above, but it also includes the line “Be careful his bow tie is really a camera”. I am not sure why, but this somehow fits Cruz, even though he doesn’t wear a bow tie.
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