Taylor Swift's Endorsement of Kamala Harris Has Resulted in a "400% to 500% Increase" in Voter Registration

[u/ebradio]

https://consequence.net/2024/09/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-endorsement-voter-registration/

[u/rmusicmods]

Note: The headline is (obviously) misleading. The "400-500% increase" observed was/is not an overall increase, but an increase in daily registrations on "vote.gov" specifically, likely over the course of 24 hours.

As reported by Elizabeth Wagmeister (CNN news correspondent) and Betsy Klein (CNN Sr. White House Producer), 405,999 people were referred to Vote.gov directly from Swift’s Instagram page. Such a number dwarfs the website’s usual traffic, which averages about 30,000 visitors per day.

[u/Flirtymiranda03]

Swifties starting their political era.

[u/MomentOfHesitation → u/Flirtymiranda03]

Tortured Voters Department

[u/racer_24_4evr → u/MomentOfHesitation]

Donnie got Swift Voted.

[u/-SQB- → u/racer_24_4evr]

[u/Hayes77519 → u/-SQB-]

2024 (Taylor’s Version)

[u/nrith → u/racer_24_4evr]

Nice.

[u/Powerful-Winner-5323 → u/racer_24_4evr]

More like a Swift kick in the ass!!!

[u/Hatdrop → u/Powerful-Winner-5323]

Swift Voted is a play on attack ads against John Kerry. A group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, put out ads that were lies claiming that John Kerry's combat awards were fake. This became known as "swiftboating."

[u/Iron-Octopus → u/Hatdrop]

And this allowed a draft dodger to prevail over an actual combat veteran.

[u/enonmouse → u/MomentOfHesitation]

Suffergettes

[u/Trashbgrash22 → u/enonmouse]

Swiftergettes

[u/Hi_Jynx → u/enonmouse]

Oh man, I can already picture the visuals.

[u/Increase-Typical → u/MomentOfHesitation]

*The Tortured Poets Department (Taylor's Version) (Voter Registration Milestone Reward)

[u/GT-FractalxNeo → u/Increase-Typical]

This reminds me to double check my voting information and register and Vote

www.vote.org

[u/martashirt → u/GT-FractalxNeo]

Same! I’m not a tswift fan, but I give her credit for making people register, and remind me to check my voter status. She also gets some points for being a cat person lol

[u/NoSignificance3817 → u/GT-FractalxNeo]

The GOP is making a huge AI-assisted push to purge voters. Make very sure you and yours are registered!

There are houses of conservatives where the liberal voter in the house was the only one purged. It is a targeted push.

[u/Aquatichive → u/MomentOfHesitation]

Boom 💥 still got it

[u/CaptainMagnets → u/Flirtymiranda03]

I mean, OG swifties are mid thirties and younger and that's the group that need to vote the most

[u/EyeSuspicious777 → u/CaptainMagnets]

Don't let my 48 year old wife hear you saying that.

[u/Skywardking77 → u/EyeSuspicious777]

You'd be happy to know that your wife is now 32 again

[u/redrabbit1289 → u/Skywardking77]

I don’t know about you… but I’m feeling 22.

[u/Shipwrecking_siren → u/redrabbit1289]

Aw man I’m feeling 62 right now.

[u/badtex66 → u/Shipwrecking_siren]

I'm feeling Minnesota but looking California

[u/palmerj54321 → u/badtex66]

Outshined, are we?

[u/badtex66 → u/palmerj54321]

🤘

[u/fundraiser → u/Skywardking77]

and actually a shy man

[u/CactusHide → u/EyeSuspicious777]

Don’t let the mid-30s, very bearded version of myself who was in a Target when they got caught absentmindedly singing along to a brand new song off of 1989 by a ~12 year old girl, who straight up pointed and laughed loudly before letting everyone within 10 aisles know what was happening, either.

[u/pannenkoek0923 → u/CactusHide]

Huh, you are a grown-ass adult, you can hum whatever you want, the days of being embarrassed by teenagers are well past you

[u/CactusHide → u/pannenkoek0923]

“Hum” and “sing” being the key words here.

[u/nlk72 → u/CactusHide]

I feel your suffering, bro. I have been there.. and no matter how you wanna feel like " fuck it and I don't care" one wishes the ground would open up and create a little space for us to crawl into and temporarily disappear. Thanks for making me relive it. Lmao.

[u/Obi1Harambe → u/CactusHide]

Oooh, a bearded lady in the wild! That’s pretty neat

[u/CactusHide → u/Obi1Harambe]

Reenactment:

[u/I-seddit → u/CactusHide]

If only I looked that good.

[u/CactusHide → u/I-seddit]

[u/chapterpt → u/EyeSuspicious777]

If you're a good husband like me you still celebrate her 29th birthday every year.

[u/Dream-Ambassador → u/chapterpt]

Heh my mom was 29 for so long I’m not sure how old she is now… 65 going on 39 I’m sure

[u/jakeStacktrace → u/CaptainMagnets]

And also the group that won't vote the most. If you are this age group, prove me wrong, I dare you.

[u/Ipuncholdpeople → u/jakeStacktrace]

If they voted the same amount as boomers this election wouldn't even be close. We'd flip some unexpected states too

[u/Mad-Lad-of-RVA → u/jakeStacktrace]

I'm 30 and have voted in every presidential election since coming of age, and have voted in every midterm, local race, etc. for the past three or four years. (I didn't do quite as hot at this before I moved to another area.)

We're not all disengaged.

[u/DizzyDjango → u/Flirtymiranda03]

Taylor drops a secret, “Liars,” album 20 days before the election

[u/Mark_is_on_his_droid → u/DizzyDjango]

A welcome October Surprise

[u/spongebobisha → u/Flirtymiranda03]

I would much rather Swifties enter their political era than those trolls who follow Rogan and co.

[u/Bertrando1 → u/Flirtymiranda03]

Idk if it’s impressive or sad that this many people are only registering to vote because a billionaire celebrity told them they should.

[u/racer_24_4evr → u/Bertrando1]

I mean, I bet a significant number are 18-22 year old women who were not of voting age last election and haven’t been politically motivated until now.

[u/Narfwak → u/racer_24_4evr]

This is the key thing people always forget about young voters - it's new people every election, because that's how time works.

[u/Worthyness → u/Narfwak]

The demographic still doesn't vote nearly as dedicated as old people unfortunately. younger people could be a massive voting block that can turn states if they only voted as consistently as old people did. Some of these elections are won or lost by literal thousands of people. 1 vote absolutely does matter, especially if you're doing down ballot stuff too.

[u/Natural-Damage768 → u/Narfwak]

not just every election, people keep asking how GTA V keeps staying near the top of the Steam sales charts and it's because of just that, there's always new people becoming old enough to want to and now are able to buy GTA V

[u/GriffinQ → u/Bertrando1]

Many of them are likely at voting age for the first time. Considering they’re in the midst of their college years (or the early stages of their careers), they’re inundated on all sides with different things drawing their attention and on which they can spend their time.

Teenagers and young adults don’t always prioritize well, I’m not gonna take it as a bad thing that a prominent entertainment figure in their life is encouraging them to get engaged in their futures and that of their peers.

[u/TheGreatBootOfEb → u/GriffinQ]

Yep, and many studies show if you vote once, you are exceedingly more likely to stay a lifelong voter. Starting young women as voters before they’ve got husbands filling their heads who to vote for is vital. I’ve met far too many women in their 40s-50s whose only voting knowledge is what they’re told to vote or think of by their husbands.

If Taylor Swift telling them to go and vote is what it takes so women don’t fall down that hole, I’m all for it even if I don’t personally like her music.

[u/fiduciary420 → u/TheGreatBootOfEb]

This happened to my sister, her husband surrendered to right wing hate ideology and dragged her into it with him.

I would routinely embarrass him in political discussions and make him rage quit and say stupid shit, and she wouldn’t budge. Now that he’s in jail, and they’re divorcing, she’s coming back to reality.

[u/1stMammaltowearpants → u/Bertrando1]

Our tent is big enough for all of them. I welcome them.

[u/mindless_gibberish → u/1stMammaltowearpants]

hell yeah. I mean, if we're accepting dick cheney, then I'll happily accept Taylor Swift fans lol.

[u/Batwaffel → u/Bertrando1]

It's a pathway in and usually young adults need that because politics at that age are very boring to most people in their 20's into 30's. It's happened in most generations this way. Remember Rock the Vote MTV started airing in the 90's to essentially plead with young people the importance of voting?

[u/reanima → u/Batwaffel]

Young adults sometimes feel like they just "dont know enough" about life or politics to think theyre going to make an intelligent vote so they end up not doing so. Gotta tell them its ok not knowing everything. Its 100% ok to leave stuff blank if youre unsure, just vote for the stuff that has an impact to you.

[u/IAmDeadYetILive → u/Bertrando1]

U.S. has always been like this but this is quite the phenomenon. She had influence the last election when she endorsed Biden, but this is unreal.

[u/Squatchshrooms → u/IAmDeadYetILive]

I can't help but wonder how much is because of her endorsement and how much is because of the debate.

[u/Cultjam → u/Squatchshrooms]

The 405,999 reported in the article were visitors who came from her instagram link. It’s insane. I’d love to hear the registrations the states are getting.

[u/IAmDeadYetILive → u/Squatchshrooms]

yeah, I've seen that mentioned but even if it's halved, that's still incredible.

[u/Squatchshrooms → u/IAmDeadYetILive]

I would love to see an America where 80-90% of the citizens make it to the polls. 2020 was the highest turnout ever and even then it was only 67% iirc.

[u/IAmDeadYetILive → u/Squatchshrooms]

I'm hoping for 80% and I think it might happen. 90% I don't even think I can compute that lol.

Unfortunately one of the downsides of living in a free society means people are free to be apathetic, civically illiterate, and lazy. Maybe the JLVRA should have an amendment added making it illegal not to vote.

[u/LitzLizzieee → u/IAmDeadYetILive]

Here in Australia we have mandatory voting, and we routinely hit 90%+! and thats in a country with vast outback country with incredibly remote people. (Australia is the size of the USA but only has 25 million people... I cannot understate the vastness of our land) Our last election in 2022 was the first since 1922 to be lower than 90%.. and it still did 89.22%.

Because its a legal obligation, we have an independent electoral commission which makes voting as accessible and easy as they can, from running polling on Saturday, to offering prepoll and postal votes, to even running remote teams that drive 100s of kms to remote outback stations to allow the 30 people that live there to vote. They even run a polling station in Antarctica for the scientists stationed out there. I've volunteered for the AEC before and it's genuinely amazing to see the work folks do every election.

America really needs to implement the same system, that way everyone has their vote counted, and politics becomes less divisive because politicians need to win a majority of their constituents, not just those whom vote.

[u/PoetryUpInThisBitch → u/LitzLizzieee]

America really needs to implement the same system, that way everyone has their vote counted, and politics becomes less divisive because politicians need to win a majority of their constituents, not just those whom vote.

Sadly, that's exactly why it won't happen, because the right wing relies on gerrymandering, voter suppression, and general fuckery to maintain their hold on power since the more people that vote, the more power they lose.

[u/NewPhoneWhoDys → u/IAmDeadYetILive]

-All 50 states need to mandate paid time off for voting

-transport needs to be provided

-it needs to be accessible to people with disabilities, a huge block of the non-voting population because they can't access voting.

it's not all apathy, it's purposeful disenfranchisment.

[u/GoofyGoober0064 → u/NewPhoneWhoDys]

Just give everyone the day off and mail out ballots too. Mandatory voting works it just means the death of the GOP

[u/GigglesMcTits → u/IAmDeadYetILive]

I'd genuinely be very surprised if we get anywhere close to 2020 voter participation levels. I'd love to be really wrong. But 2020 was a bit of an anomaly due to COVID and people being stuck at home.

[u/Typical_Job3788 → u/Squatchshrooms]

“405,999 people were referred to Vote.gov directly from Swift’s Instagram page. Such a number dwarfs the website’s usual traffic, which averages about 30,000 visitors per day.“

Seems like this can be attributed to her directly. 

[u/Eponine05 → u/Bertrando1]

We take those.

[u/marcuschookt → u/Bertrando1]

The principle of it is quite concerning because you think, if things were just a little different she could just as easily have drummed up arbitrary support for the other side. It also means that there is a significant number of voters on both sides of the aisle who completely miss the point of politics and that the modern US is built on basically complete randomness.

[u/mindless_gibberish → u/marcuschookt]

Turns out that a lot of women don't like the idea of being forced to give birth to a dead baby because a bunch of megachurch kid fuckers decided that a bunch of bronze age goat fuckers told them that it's better to let women die than give them basic heath care.

[u/TerribleDanger → u/marcuschookt]

I don’t think many people are changing their political views for Taylor. I think it’s more likely that she reminded people to check their registration status and encouraged first time voters to register.

Which isn’t nothing. A lot of young people don’t fully understand the process and think their vote doesn’t matter. So encouragement from their favorite artist packaged with an easily accessible link can motivate them to actually do it.

[u/Sloppysecondz314 → u/Bertrando1]

Both

[u/whogivesashirtdotca → u/Bertrando1]

Some people need the reminder. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those registrations were from people who idly checked the voting rolls and discovered they'd been purged.

[u/FluffyAssistant7107 → u/Bertrando1]

The problem is not enough people vote ,and if this is a way to get more people to vote in election, it's a good thing.

[u/composedchivalry → u/Flirtymiranda03]

Taylor Swift really out here making moves. like, who knew she had that kinda power?

[u/Texan2020katza → u/Flirtymiranda03]

It’s always women. We rock!

[u/whenforeverisnt]

Listened to the actual interview. No, there was not a 400% - 500% increase in registrations. There was that much increase in interest i.e. going to the website. We don't actually know how many of those people actually registered.

[u/TheMooseIsBlue → u/whenforeverisnt]

The article says traffic is normally 30k a day. They got 400k+ with 24 hours directly linked from her IG post. That’s the interest number.

Some data company then said registrations were up 400%-500%.

[u/ClassicPlankton → u/TheMooseIsBlue]

She posted a link, people clicked it, then probably left after a few seconds.

[u/TheMooseIsBlue → u/ClassicPlankton]

The numbers suggest around half of them registered. Great if true.

[u/The_Big_Come_Up → u/TheMooseIsBlue]

Even if it’s 25% depending on where the person is located can make a huge difference. I’m kinda worried a large percentage is in CA… Vote people like your rights depend on it.

[u/Snap_Zoom → u/TheMooseIsBlue]

F'n'a - thank you!

[u/lukeCRASH → u/Snap_Zoom]

Never seen f'n'a stylized that way, and apart from making it f'n'eh (am Canadian), I love it.

[u/Tasty_Delivery283 → u/TheMooseIsBlue]

Which numbers suggest that? Some of these numbers come from a firm called TargetSmart but it’s not clear they have access to this kind of data. And how would they?

[u/smcl2k → u/ClassicPlankton]

Read the comment to which you replied. Open the link in the original post.

What you're saying is true for a lot of the people who visited the site, but apparently not for several thousand of them.

[u/dora_tarantula → u/ClassicPlankton]

If you send a spam email, the expected conversion you'd expect is about 2%.

Since this is legitimate interest, we can expect a much higher conversion (people actually registering). I don't know what the average / expected conversion rate is, I just know it for spam emails but it's surprising how often that gives a decent idea

[u/GummiBerry_Juice → u/whenforeverisnt]

Thank you for clarifying.. all that being said, 400 - 500% increase in traffic to a website that provides information to folks about registering to vote is exactly what we need. I don't care who you want to vote for, just get involved

[u/AmishAvenger → u/GummiBerry_Juice]

I care who people want to vote for.

If anyone watched that debate and thought “Yep, that dude who said immigrants are eating pets is my guy,” I’d really prefer they just don’t get involved.

[u/felonius_thunk → u/AmishAvenger]

Yeah, we're supposed to say "I don't care who you vote for, just vote," but it's pretty fuckin clear at this point that one of those options is a horrendously bad idea.

[u/oddphallicreaction → u/felonius_thunk]

A horrendously bad concept of an idea

[u/muntoo → u/oddphallicreaction]

• In theory, he's a bad idea.
• In practice, he's a catastrophically terrible idea.

[u/smcl2k → u/felonius_thunk]

Sure, but when turnout goes up, conservative politicians tend to fair pretty badly.

[u/Junkraj1802 → u/smcl2k]

Because of the demographics not voting, the percentage of younger adults (also statistically more left leaning) is much higher than that of older boomers (statistically conservative). as turnout goes up, the higher the percentage of dem votes

[u/SeroWriter → u/felonius_thunk]

Yeah, we're supposed to say "I don't care who you vote for, just vote,"

No-one that says that has ever meant it.

[u/BlueRaith → u/SeroWriter]

I do, actually. I live in a small, very red county in Texas. No young person's vote is actually going to matter here in terms of our local or state representatives.

That said, our town's population has been in significant decline since right before 9/11, according to a census graph from Google. Which means these kids are doing the smart thing and getting the hell out of here.

Away from their parents, away from this rural bubble, and off to college or anywhere else where they will meet new people and live through new experiences.

They may just vote in step with their parents for their first election. I know I did. But what is far, far more critical is getting them to vote for the first time. You are exceedingly more likely to become a lifelong voter after voting just one time.

I'll gladly take the gamble of encouraging young people to vote as an investment towards the future. Texas suppresses voter registration for a reason. When more people vote, those new voters vote Democrat far more than they do Republican.

When I worked at the local grocery store as an assistant manager, I made sure to ask and allow everyone in my department an opportunity to clock out and go vote on election day. I told them I wasn't going to tell them how to vote, just that they do.

My best year was 16 young baggers and cashiers. I genuinely hope most of them have continued voting, no matter how they voted that first year.

[u/dora_tarantula → u/SeroWriter]

There is a South Park episode dedicated to that.

"You have to vote, doesn't matter for who, just vote"

"HOW COULD YOU VOTE FOR THE WRONG GUY"

[u/sirry → u/AmishAvenger]

Polls indicate that the majority of people who saw the debate thought kamala won, so probably most people who saw it and decided to register want to vote for the person they think won. And the part of the increase which happened because tswift endorsed kamala probably supports kamala as well. Like, shouldn't we support everyone who has any opinion on either voting because overwhelmingly they're leaning democrat?

[u/GummiBerry_Juice → u/AmishAvenger]

Luckily, I really happen to believe there are A BUTT LOAD more of us than there are of them.

[u/Goducks91 → u/GummiBerry_Juice]

Problem is it doesn't matter. Those BUTT LOAD more people need to be in the right states.

[u/DetroitLionsSBChamps → u/GummiBerry_Juice]

Why is this still the approach. I don’t think “I love voting so much I don’t care who you vote for” makes a lot of sense when one of the options is a guy who said “if I win you won’t have to vote anymore.”

[u/ClassicPlankton → u/GummiBerry_Juice]

Hey man I think in this case it really matters who people are voting for. 

[u/Sharp_Investigator → u/whenforeverisnt]

If you see down the article a little there is an update that states

: According to data firm TargetSmart, Swift’s endorsement has led to a “400% or 500% increase” in voter registration — between 9,000-10,000 people per hour.

[u/Tryhard3r → u/Sharp_Investigator]

Those guys were also just on the Meidas Touch Podcast and went into a lot of interesting insights into the data they are seeing.

https://youtu.be/Da2wNP6ymsc?si=Qrvl7MrMI2vEBMPf

Worth a watch.

[u/BattleRoyaleWtCheese → u/whenforeverisnt]

The traffic is also from fans all over the world , who were curious about the website ..

[u/dragonmp93 → u/whenforeverisnt]

"As reported by Elizabeth Wagmeister (a CNN entertainment correspondent) and Betsy Klein (CNN’s Senior White House Producer), 405,999 people were referred to Vote.gov directly from Swift’s Instagram page. Such a number dwarfs the website’s usual traffic, which averages about 30,000 visitors per day."

"UPDATE: According to data firm TargetSmart, Swift’s endorsement has led to a “400% or 500% increase” in voter registration — between 9,000-10,000 people per hour."

[u/blff266697]

Please vote everybody. Please register today if you haven't. It only takes a couple seconds.

Vote.gov It doesn't take long. You can still register.

Most states allow mail-in. It's very easy to vote nowadays. Please everybody. Don't let your vote be unheard.

[u/ZugZugYesMiLord → u/blff266697]

Unless you live in Texas, then you can't register online. Which makes it even MORE IMPORTANT TO VOTE IN TEXAS!

Our politicians are putting hurdles in the way of voting when they should be making it easier to vote. Get these good ole boys out of office!

[u/Little-Derp → u/ZugZugYesMiLord]

Texas has 3 state Supreme Court justices seats up for election. Vote for that too, it makes a big difference. And vote out Ted Cruz whil you’re at it.

[u/Flaeor → u/Little-Derp]

To vote out Ted Cruz vote FOR Colin Allred.

[u/RainyNytes → u/Flaeor]

Collins last name is a little too on the nose for me. Who else we got? (Obvious joke)

[u/Historical_Project00 → u/ZugZugYesMiLord]

Wait a second, you can’t register to vote in Texas online??

[u/Crawlerado → u/Historical_Project00]

They require you to print off and mail in your completed voter registration. Certainly a barrier.

[u/Historical_Project00 → u/Crawlerado]

Damn. I’m so glad my federal passport allowed for typing the form out before printing. I have a disability where I can’t physically handwrite. I’m cynically assuming that the voter form to print off does in fact not have a type-fill option? 🫠 if I lived in TX and wanted to register to vote I’d be SOL unless I could get someone’s help.

Working as designed.

[u/OffbeatChaos → u/ZugZugYesMiLord]

Same here in Montana :( mail or in-person only. Fucking annoying.

[u/Anthony12125 → u/blff266697]

registered today!

[u/boostman → u/blff266697]

Found Taylor Swift’s secret Reddit account.

[u/retxed24 → u/boostman]

Repaint the whole room you fucking degenerate. Stop cumming all over the place this isn't church. Get a fucking sock.

Their last comment lol

[u/boostman → u/retxed24]

It’s Taylor confirmed.

[u/dangerousbob]

Trumps social team putting that fake AI stuff up might cost them the election. Wtf were they thinking.

[u/Plaineswalker → u/dangerousbob]

I'm really glad they are idiots. An intelligent, tactile and charismatic fascist in the GOP will be very dangerous.

[u/AmaroWolfwood → u/Plaineswalker]

I haven't seen one yet! Something about being anti education and anti social programs seems to make a less than bright pool of people. They sure do band together nicely though.

[u/Plaineswalker → u/AmaroWolfwood]

Like a dumbass flock of sheep.

[u/ManhattanObject → u/dangerousbob]

"I accept" he says 🤣

[u/ratbastardben → u/ManhattanObject]

Embarrassing.

[u/TheTVDB → u/dangerousbob]

Anyone that follows her closely enough knew she'd endorse Kamala at some point, regardless of the AI thing or how the debate went. However, it does add a nice narrative element to the endorsement and serves as a warning for future AI use.

[u/bigchicago04 → u/dangerousbob]

I mean she was obviously going to endorse anyway

[u/Nephroidofdoom]

Fuck Elon Musk!

[u/Bezimini9 → u/Nephroidofdoom]

You mean Leon?

[u/Discuffalo → u/Bezimini9]

Leon Skum?

[u/WeepingAgnello → u/Nephroidofdoom]

Hey stop that. He wants the attention. Stop giving him the attention! 

[u/oatmeal28 → u/Nephroidofdoom]

I got banned from Elon Musk subreddit for saying he sounded like a simp in his Taylor Swift tweet  

I’d like to point out it’s the only subreddit I’ve ever been banned from, from the so called Champion of Free Speech ™️ himself’s subreddit 

[u/Funkymonkeyhead → u/Nephroidofdoom]

Eww. Rather not.

[u/bstring777]

Keep an eye as they are tossing out registrations in some states up to the election. You cant be too careful. The attempted steal will come from the accusers.

[u/jedininjashark → u/bstring777]

It really feels like every conservative accusation is an admission at this point.

[u/befarked247 → u/jedininjashark]

In r/conservative, they were laughing at Taylor for disabling comments on her page, restricting free speech against her from a flaired user only post. Go figure, but also saying she shouldn't be involved in politics. Which to my understanding is against her first amendment right. They flip flop like a fish out of water.

[u/rbhmmx → u/befarked247]

Kid rock can politic but she can't

[u/Taker_Sins → u/rbhmmx]

Because they only have one value: social dominance. It explains literally everything.

[u/romanticizeyourlife → u/befarked247]

It’s funny because she’s had comments disabled on her posts for years and years now.

[u/mw9676 → u/befarked247]

Ironic because you get kicked off of their safe space over there for posting anything suggesting their little diaper boy isn't a god.

[u/caerphoto → u/befarked247]

they were laughing at Taylor for disabling comments on her page, restricting free speech against her

No doubt they just wanted to thank her for encouraging young people to go out and vote, right? Or maybe they had some polite, thoughtful and well-informed opinions on why Harris perhaps isn’t the best choice.

I simply can’t imagine anyone from that sub being a hateful bigot 🤥

[u/Many-Birthday12345 → u/befarked247]

Fun fact, she’s apparently the reason instagram changed their comments settings. 2016 was when people kept commenting snake emojis and other awful things to the point she ended up going into hiding.

[u/Clearwatercress69 → u/bstring777]

Listen to this person. You don’t need to check every day but check once a week until November.

[u/NegativeAd1343]

Now if only they do something about elon for threatening to impregnate her. The swifties can end his reign of inferior.

[u/DiKapino]

I’m unsure who to vote for because my favorite celebrity hasn’t made an endorsement yet… please somebody get Ja Rule on the phone!!

[u/ReallyDumbRedditor → u/DiKapino]

it's not even that they were unsure, just indifferent lol

[u/Theboringlife → u/ReallyDumbRedditor]

This is the big point I keep making. There aren't any undecided voters in America, only unmotivated potential voters. I'm not gonna lie, when Biden was running a few weeks ago, I was very unmotivated. I still would've voted, but I can imagine alot of others not turning out of they're unmotivated.

I think also for young people, politics is just not on their radar. They're out living life, but if your favorite musician puts it front and center, I imagine that can help with motivation.

[u/GummiBerry_Juice → u/Theboringlife]

100%

[u/bunc → u/DiKapino]

Where’s Ja?!?!?!?

[u/jerryonthecurb → u/bunc]

[u/Free_tramapoline → u/bunc]

Busy planning Fyre Fest 2

[u/HappyToB → u/bunc]

I need Ja to make sense of all this

[u/Blurry_Bigfoot → u/DiKapino]

Taylor Swift fans are young and are going to vote Democrat, generally. Her endorsement is merely a reminder to vote, which younger people generally don't do.

[u/LaughingAtNonsense]

“Who’s afraid of little old me? Well you should be”.

[u/myrianthi]

If you head on over to the flavored users only subreddit, they're all saying "WHO CARES" regarding Swifts endorsement. Uh - They should care! Shes influencing millions of votes!

[u/Soulful-Sorrow → u/myrianthi]

They lack any and all self-awareness. I went to take a look after the debate and I saw people saying "Yeah, I can't believe millions of rubes are so brainless that they blindly follow whatever their favorite celebrity says. Sad. Celebrities should have no voice in politics."

And it's like, dude, who's your candidate again? It's like someone putting on a pair of sunglasses so you can't see them crying.

[u/Expensive-Ad-5032 → u/myrianthi]

People definitely should care about this entire election, because it’s too important. But we also don’t need to overestimate or exaggerate how many will actually go to vote, especially for who. It’s not set in stone, so no need to jinx it.

[u/oatmeal28]

Huge numbers. Beautiful numbers.  The likes of which we’ve never seen 

[u/GaymerGuy47]

Honestly, thank you Taylor.

[u/formerNPC]

If she is the reason why Kamala wins Pennsylvania then it’s all worth it. We are desperate to keep the orange clown from going back to the White House.

[u/fragmental → u/formerNPC]

Trumps love of Russia surely didn't charm any of Pennsylvania's Polish population, also.

[u/nola_mike]

People are either too young or forgot about the whole Rock The Vote marketing on MTV back in the day. Every election since the early to mid 90's (or essentially when I started noticing it) has had some sort of entertainment/entertainer telling young people to register and vote. It's the age group that is always lacking in participation for local, state and federal elections.

[u/Icy-Mongoose-3670]

I just registered today!! But not because of a post. I'm 36 and am finally inspired to vote for someone I believe in!

[u/SpazzBro]

Please register to vote, it’s important and every vote counts :) We need measures in place to make sure everyone possible can vote

[u/DrinkBuzzCola]

Yeah, but didn't J.D. Vance say she's out of touch? You know, the guy putting down single women with cats while trying to control their bodies?

[u/Empathy404NotFound → u/DrinkBuzzCola]

He was right, he wouldn't have a chance with her.

[u/pineappleturq]

Keep it going Swifties.

[u/toofles_in_gondal → u/[deleted]]

This actually works on the micro level too where influential people in your small circle can get people to do things. This is one of the basics of behavior change. We are herd animals. Instead of whining about it, we should maximize for good.

[u/se7en41 → u/toofles_in_gondal]

What a great parallel for everyday life.

None of my neighbors care about soccer, but whenever we crack a couple beers and have family time, all I gotta do is start dribbling and juggling a ball for a few minutes, and sooner or later all the grown ups are passing a ball around and playing with the kids.

If it's perfectly acceptable for me to influence my neighbors and I into some drunken cardio, why isn't it acceptable for someone actually famous to coax people into something they might not try otherwise?

[u/nyanlol → u/[deleted]]

People got their polio shots bc Elvis was photographed getting one. We take our wins where we can get them

[u/L3onskii → u/nyanlol]

Also when Princess Diana shook hands with an HIV+/AIDS patient. She helped weaken the stigma surrounding the virus

[u/rostron92 → u/[deleted]]

It's not exactly a new phenomenon. unless you mean this country is in a perpetual state of "fucked"

[u/drunk_with_internet → u/[deleted]]

I'm more concerned that people voted for a washed up reality TV star and rapist, but then again the world is a crazy place.

[u/iamthecheesethatsbig → u/[deleted]]

We’ve already been fucked by a wannabe Reality TV celebrity as president. It can’t be worse.

[u/Digita1B0y]

Jesus. Imagine if people registered to vote just because they gave a shit about like.... iunno, not living in a christofascist ethnostate? Or like because they didn't want to see their human rights repealed to the 18th century?

Sigh

Don't get me wrong, im happy for the boost, I guess. 

Welcome aboard, Swifties.

[u/imjustbettr → u/Digita1B0y]

You gotta start somewhere. I'm sure for a lot of them this might be their first.

[u/WeepingAgnello → u/Digita1B0y]

It's not a bad thing, encouraging people to vote. Encouragement is more emotional than logical... Hopefully these new voters will take interest in meaningful political topics

[u/swift-aasimar-rogue → u/Digita1B0y]

It’s also possible that some people hadn’t registered yet. A solid chunk of her fanbase is young and may not have voted before.

[u/bateKush → u/Digita1B0y]

how is this different from a psa?

[u/raishak → u/Digita1B0y]

A loud minority act like the country is a disaster, but I'd say most American's day to day life is pretty good, especially those with educated parents that probably lean left. Voting is about action, and people with few problems prefer non-action. A problem you might end up having is not easy to internalize as real for most people.

[u/MediocreX]

We are very lucky that Swift is a decent person.

Good work Taylor, you may have saved us.

[u/von_Roland]

Are we certain that it wasn’t the very public high profile debate that happened at about the same time?

[u/windwildwind → u/von_Roland]

This is specifically about the number of people who visited the registration website via the unique link she posted

[u/GroundbreakingCow775 → u/windwildwind]

[u/CitizenHalo → u/von_Roland]

Yeah, they’re certain. They’d be able to track user traffic from Instagram from the time she posted, or via her link (if it was a unique link, but I’m unsure if it was). The article was also updated to confirm:

“According to data firm TargetSmart, Swift’s endorsement has led to a “400% or 500% increase” in voter registration — between 9,000-10,000 people per hour.”

Considering that they usually get 30,000 visits A DAY, that’s insane traffic.

On a side note, in my younger days I used to wonder why A Listers avoided officially endorsing a President, little did I know back. While Taylor has just shown how powerful her influence is, it’ll be interesting to see how impactful it actually is (for me personally, I hope it boosts Kamala Harris’ chances over Don Chump.

[u/chicasparagus]

A testament to how stupid and ignorant Americans actually are cos it takes a pop star’s endorsement to get them to vote.

[u/Hearbinger → u/chicasparagus]

As someone who lives in a country where voting is mandatory and no one even questions whether they should go or not, this whole situation feels so weird to me

[u/FblthpLives]

The topic headline misses one of the most important aspects of these registrations: According to data firm TargetSmart which tracks the registration check API requests, about 80% of voters who register this late in the election cycle end up voting.

[u/Vio94]

I guess it makes sense. A lot more people are old enough to vote now that were too young the last time she rallied voter registration.

[u/UNFAM1L1AR]

Watching republicans mald over this has been insane.

[u/lyinggrump]

Imagine only voting because a celebrity told you to.

[u/TumbleweedMore4524 → u/lyinggrump]

That’s funny because nowhere in Taylor’s statement did she tell people to go and vote for Kamala, she said to do proper research and vote accordingly.

[u/TrustInRoy → u/lyinggrump]

Imagine more people voting, and in the process learning why it's so important to vote, and thus becoming lifelong voters.

[u/wannabe_pixie → u/lyinggrump]

Better than not voting because the Russians bribed your influencer to tell you that both parties are the same.

[u/giannarelax → u/lyinggrump]

imagine caring where the votes come from if it wins harris the presidency

[u/RobValleyheart → u/lyinggrump]

Imagine voting for a reality TV star.

[u/DiKapino → u/RobValleyheart]

One doesn’t make the other any more acceptable tbh

[u/kodiak_kid89 → u/lyinggrump]

Imagine being positively influenced by your idols. Or being inspired by someone who reflects the things you think and feel. What a crazy concept!

[u/the_smokist]

Women will save America!

[u/Sodachi_Oikura]

God I can’t wait until election season is over so I can stop seeing trash posts like this. 

Not to mention for the winner to fail the country again like they always do.