Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action.
On Tuesday (19 September), hours after the pop star, 32, called on her US fanbase to register to vote in honour of National Voter Registration Day, Vote.org’s communication director, Nick Morrow, announced that “our site was averaging 13,000 users every 30 minutes”.
“Fun fact: after @taylorswift13 posted on Instagram today directing her followers to register to vote on @votedotorg, our site was averaging 13,0000 users every 30 minutes,” Morrow wrote on X/Twitter.
“13! Let’s just say her reputation for being a mastermind is very well-earned.”
Earlier that day, the “Anti-Hero” singer had posted to her Story, asking followers: “Are you registered to vote yet?
It’s sad that so many didn’t consider what it means to be able to vote and weren’t already registered. It’s even worse that they only did it after a celebrity told them to. I’m not sure I like the thought of those kinds of people voting.
What do you mean “those kinds of people”? This is a democracy, everyone (over 18) is entitled to vote, and every vote is valid. Maybe they just needed a friendly reminder or an extra push from someone they look up to.
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The 18-30 demographic in this country is notorious for not voting. It’s been a thing for a long time. Which is part of the reason politics is so conservative*.
MTV was running the “Rock the Vote” campaign 30 years ago, in attempts to get younger people to vote. This is not a new situation at all.
*There are younger conservatives, but the younger demographics tend to skew liberal/progressive.
45% of her fan base are millennial so mostly outside of that demographic on 11% are gen z
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So you also want fox news, young turks and all other political stations off the air. Understand
Yeah, it’s if these generations were raised to feel apathetic towards politics.
All generations are groomed to be good little worker drones that don’t question their
parentsrulers.Part of becoming a functioning adult is learning to rebel in healthy ways. Voting never feels effective, so it’s not ever viewed as a viable path of expression for young people.
Therefore it’s a bit stupid to say only recent youngins have been raised that way. Most western kids are groomed that way. Always have been. It’s by design.
Voter turnout has always sucked, and especially among the youth vote. I think it’s sad to throw stones at any effort that moves the needle in that regard.
Registration isn’t the same as voting, sure, but there is a correlation between degrees of registration numbers and turnout. The below article focuses primarily on differences from automatic registrations, but covers the details pretty well I think.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happened-when-2-2-million-people-were-automatically-registered-to-vote/