I certainly agree. Very few people are going to change their voting minds at this point. However, turnout is going to be key in this election. More than 300,000 people going to a voter registration site in one day is not exactly a drop in the bucket. If Ms. Swift continues to push voter registration to her youngish, majority female fanbase, this could certainly make a difference.
I think the bigger fear is that Swift endorsement might encourage people to actually get out and vote who might not otherwise have bothered. Republicans don’t want more people voting.
It’s not a matter of changing votes, it’s about bringing in new likely voters. Young people are notoriously bad about getting out to vote, something that’s been true for a long, long time. Taylor Swift bringing it up motivates some of them to get involved:
The General Services Administration, which oversees the website, confirmed to NBC News that as of 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, 337,826 people had visited a custom URL that Swift posted on Instagram when she announced she was endorsing Harris.
At a time when Presidential elections are usually decided by a few thousand votes in a few key states, bringing in over 300,000 new voters could make all the difference. Hell, even 30,000 might push it over the top.
I figured it was an anatomical reference, but I thought the “Arby’s” part might have been somehow specific to Greene’s anatomy. Cheese sauce, maybe? Man, this is getting nasty, even for the Pit.
It’s one of those disgusting incel / red pill memes, the idea being that when women have a “high body count” (multiple sexual partners ) it changes the appearance of their external genitalia. Roast beef is often used as a descriptor of this imaginary effect.
Oddly enough, this imaginary effect doesn’t happen when a woman has frequent sex with the same partner.
That’s an interesting number (337K, from link), because it is almost exactly 1/1000 of the population of the United States.
So, if the voters who registered via that link are evenly distributed across the population (a slightly dubious assumption, but let’s go with it) that would result in (all numbers approximations):
7200 new voters in AZ
10800 new voters in GA
10100 new voters in MI
3150 new voters in NV
10500 new voters in NC
13100 new voters in PA
6000 new voters in WI
(and just for grins, 21800 new voters in FL and 29300 new voters in TX).
Note that the Georgia number is almost exactly 1000 less than the 2020 margin, as given in the famous phone call.
For what it’s worth, the band Garfunkel & Oates (comprised of female musicians/actresses/comedians Rikki Lindholme and Kate Micucci) have a song called “The College Try” (about experimenting with bisexuality and sex), which features the lines:
Make of that what you will, but it’s not just the incel crowd that’s made the comparison.
“Space aliens are invading our country in unbelievable numbers and committing crimes using weapons even our military has never seen. They’re eating our dogs and cats, and performing sex change experiments on our students. You ever heard of an alien named Alf, the late great Alf? Great guy, just great. He’d love to have your cat over for dinner, if you know what I mean. That’s why I had the infinite genius and foresight to create the Space Force, so millions of filthy violent cat-eating space aliens will not stream across our Earthly borders.”
As I think you know, Harris herself is unlikely to be so blatant about calling him out. (Little allusions here and there are probably all she’ll descend to.)
But her campaign team has already produced some masterpieces of mockery of Donald, and I expect they’ll rise to this new occasion, as well.