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Taylor Swift Causes Surge in Voter Registration After Endorsing Democrats on Instagram
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 09, 2018 09:23am |
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| Author | Matt Novak |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 9, 2018 12:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Pop star Taylor Swift endorsed two Democrats this week in a surprise Instagram post that upset many Trump supporters who assumed she was a secret Republican. And Swift’s endorsements are having a real impact. According to Vote.org, the number of voter registrations has gone through the roof.
“We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s post,” Kamari Guthrie, director of communications for Vote.org, told Buzzfeed.
How big of a spike is that? Precisely 190,178 voters registered on the site in all of September, or roughly 6,000 per day. A small percentage of that uptick in registrations can be attributed to the fact that many voter registration deadlines are this week. But organizers at Vote.org believe that the vast majority of the credit should go to Swift.
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