Flying Squid@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 年前Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harriswww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1947file-textcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 年前When the most popular musician in the world, a woman who has a vast number of American followers, a woman who got thousands of them to register to vote this year just by saying so, endorses a candidate, it’s news.
minus-squareCyrus Draegur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 年前Precisely. It is the act of an influential human. Of course we’ll notice. Simple as.
minus-squarenieminen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Just saw that her endorsement prompted 307k new voter registrations TODAY.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Those are the sort of numbers that could change a presidential election outcome.
When the most popular musician in the world, a woman who has a vast number of American followers, a woman who got thousands of them to register to vote this year just by saying so, endorses a candidate, it’s news.
Precisely.
It is the act of an influential human. Of course we’ll notice. Simple as.
Just saw that her endorsement prompted 307k new voter registrations TODAY.
Those are the sort of numbers that could change a presidential election outcome.