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Voter registration surges after Taylor Swift's Instagram post(on Marsha Blackburn)
The Hill ^ | 10/09/18 | ARIS FOLLEY

Posted on 10/09/2018 5:45:51 AM PDT by sickoflibs

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To: sickoflibs

I don’t think the entertainment industry allows anyone to succeed unless they align politically, so this shouldn’t surprise anyone.


41 posted on 10/09/2018 6:36:48 AM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: sickoflibs

What next? Miley Cyrus’s views or Billy Ray & Dolly Parton?


42 posted on 10/09/2018 6:36:51 AM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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To: gattaca
My young leftists neighbors think that revolting and organizing today is just like the American Revolution and justify it as such.

Ask them when their home was put to the torch and how many times have they've been shot at today.

43 posted on 10/09/2018 6:37:57 AM PDT by dead
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To: 1Old Pro

“...take an UBER to Starbucks...”

I would rather ride a mule to Krispy Kreme!

This man expresses my view of Starbucks perfectly starting at 2:15.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Mjnzqi5gs


44 posted on 10/09/2018 6:39:29 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: dead

Good point. I just reminded them it’s more like the French Revolution and there’s no comparison.


45 posted on 10/09/2018 6:40:10 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: sickoflibs

I call BS on this one. This was reported like a few hours after her statement.


46 posted on 10/09/2018 6:43:18 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

“So the voters registering are all anti-Marsha?”

Probably not due to Swifts tweet. The registration deadline was approaching is most likely reason. No telling which way they’re leaning, TN doesn’t register by party


47 posted on 10/09/2018 6:50:17 AM PDT by Figment
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To: RipSawyer
Roger that.
Anyone who takes their political cues from Swift should not be allowed to vote.
48 posted on 10/09/2018 6:52:36 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: sickoflibs
More fake news pushing, a fake reality for the masses in TN.

Funny how this all coinsides with the final vote on Kavanaugh and the new Democray push to claim they will impeach him if they get back the House. Even of they were successful they still can't get a 2/3rds majority in the Senate to carry out the deed.

I call Bovine Manure.

49 posted on 10/09/2018 6:52:37 AM PDT by thingumbob (Antifa. Carrying on Hitler's legacy one beating at a time.)
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To: sickoflibs

Registered voters does not mean actual voters.


50 posted on 10/09/2018 7:03:12 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner

And they are not all necessarily Democrats.


51 posted on 10/09/2018 7:25:14 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: sickoflibs

Hi I’m Taylor Swift, I’m from Pennsylvania and I am telling you Tennesseans how to vote. Cause... well I’m just smarter and richer than you.


52 posted on 10/09/2018 7:31:48 AM PDT by XRdsRev (You can't spell HILLARY without the letters LIAR.)
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To: a fool in paradise
"How many of TS’s 112 million followers are bots or live in other countries?"

And I'd bet 90+% of what's left are under 18 years old.

53 posted on 10/09/2018 7:33:00 AM PDT by drpix
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To: EURASLEEP

Yup


54 posted on 10/09/2018 7:51:54 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: woweeitsme

That certainly won’t make any difference.


55 posted on 10/09/2018 7:52:58 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: sickoflibs

1) I seriously, seriously doubt they really registered this many people. I don’t trust vote.org at all.

2) This is national. So they registered 50,000 California weed heads and virtually no one in a midwestern swing state.

3) This age group is notorious for NOT voting.

In short, this is like Napoleon’s “600,000-man army” that invaded Russia, got there with 150,000 and by the time they got to Moscow had 90,000. Totally unreliable.


56 posted on 10/09/2018 8:21:08 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: DarthVader

You are correct!


57 posted on 10/09/2018 8:36:24 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

She’s not losing.


58 posted on 10/09/2018 9:44:07 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: SMGFan
RE:”What next? Miley Cyrus’s views or Billy Ray & Dolly Parton?”

If they all told us to do different things we wouldn't know what to do, I could have a nervous breakdown

59 posted on 10/09/2018 10:20:32 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: Drew68; Yaelle; HombreSecreto; BenLurkin
Taylor Swift will have a negligible effect on the midterm elections. There's nothing brave or inspiring about another celebrity coming out for Democrats, particularly when they parrot the same worn-out cliches about standing up for LGBT rights and against racism. Yawn...

That's what makes this so disappointing. Swift churned out a tepid endorsement on Instagram, pissed off millions of her fans (who like me understood that she was probably a liberal but appreciated that she was staying above the fray), she turned off her comments section, and quietly slunk away.

When you can't even watch a football game without being subjected to politics (and only one side of it, naturally) Taylor Swift was one of the last "politics-free" institutions in America that both sides could enjoy and escape from all the rancor and discourse.

Not any more. Sad.

Drew, you summarized my thoughts and feelings perfectly.

Taylor made this endorsement AFTER her U.S. tour was done. Knowing this would truly piss off millions of her American Fans.

Taylor Swift was perfectly a-political and for all ages.

No More.

60 posted on 10/10/2018 5:40:15 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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