You’re absolutely correct! I was so focused on moving the misplaced adjectival phrase that I overlooked the obviously better placement. I blame Bacardi Gold, the Devil Rum! 
Thanks for saving me from having to post that.
Just saw this:
Video seems to be from CNN, and they say that this not something they’ve seen before, and that data shows that 80% people who register this late in the election usually go on to vote.
When the voters they’re courting are themselves reactionary troglodytes, this doesn’t seem like such a bad tactic.
Krispy Kreme* does that. If you bring in proof that you voted you get two free donuts. If, during the promotion, you walk in and ask for two free donuts, you’ll also get them. IIRC, in their ads running up to the election, they imply you need to prove you voted, but they never actually state it, plus they have a disclaimer saying it’s available to anyone.
*and double checking that, I see lots of businesses, both local and national, do exactly this. Meanwhile, there’s a whole bunch of articles dated from 2012/2016/2020 etc, about how it’s illegal and you can go to jail for participating in this (unless they offer the free goods to anyone).
Okay, so, the next evolution should be, “FREE GIFT for voters* (*or anyone who mentions this campaign).” So everyone is covered and is eligible for the free gift, whether they voted or not.
Of course, what they don’t tell you is that there’s a different gift in each scenario. If you show proof you voted, you can receive two free donuts. If you don’t have proof you voted, you can enjoy five free minutes in the Angry Wasp Room.
In TSwift’s case, the equivalent could be, free TS album, or a free recording of an elderly badger taking a dump.
Endorsement from Childless Cat Lady so far has garnered 9 million likes and nearly half a million new voter registrations. Just like his orange boss, Vance has an almost perfect track record of being wrong on everything.
I took a look at a ticket resale site. The bad obstructed cheap seats were $2k, the decent seats were $4k, good seats are $6k+. All fear the MAGA boycott.
As a professional copywriter, I call BS. My priority is always what sounds conversational, not what your 7th grade English teacher mandated. And Taylor’s version sounds way better than yours. 
The reporting around this has bugged me a bit. She has NOT garnered nearly half a million new voter registrations – rather, Vote .gov reported a spike of 400,000 visits in the 24 hours after she made her social media post. Not surprising given that she included a link in her post. It’s impossible to say how many of those clicks led to an unregistered eligible voter actually following through and completing the registration process. Especially since Vote. gov is not a voter registration website itself, but rather directs users to state election websites with information on how to register in that state.
That’s a valid point. But it’s also a good bet that the number of new voter registrations among her followers is likely significant even if the exact number isn’t known, and it’s probably still growing. I would guess that many young Swifties of voting age are disproportionately uninterested in politics, so their idol taking a definitive stand may mean a lot to them.
For Vance to claim that the endorsement of someone as immensely popular as Swift isn’t going to matter is just absurd. If he believes that, he should ask his boss why he falsely tried to claim that Swift endorsed him.
Voter registration is a county function in most (all?) of the USA.
So gathering coherent stats across ~4000 counties on any actual surge is going to be very difficult.
If TS is serious about having an impact I suggest some sort of social media campaign to ask her fans to virtue-signal by posting “I registered”, “I was already registered” or similar. Assuming it takes off virally, that keeps the idea alive and the snowball rolling.
Sure folks could just post without doing, but it’s even easier for those lazy folks not to post at all.
Them start the same thing with “I voted” once the early or mail-in voting becomes availbe in sufficient volume to start a fresh self- sustaining snowball.
Waay back when I first started voting, Pronto Markets (before they became amalgamated with Trader Joe’s) would give you a free chocolate bar if you brought in your “I voted” sticker.
Absolutely true. For PA, for example, you can find the data here :Voting and Election Statistics | Department of State | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
So you would have to look at the data currently posted (which is as of 9/9/24) and compare the number of registrations to some time in a week or two - it looks like that’s how often they update the statistics.
As of today there are 8,879,750 registered voters (down a bit from November 2020), of which 3,916,743 are registered as Democrats (down almost 300k from 2020). GOP registrations are about flat from 2020 and Other has gone up by a little.
You’re allowed to give voters a benefit as long as you call it a gratuity.
As a professional writer and copy editor, the sentence that really jumped out for me, and suggested that it might not have been professionally wordsmithed, was
I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.
It’s just clumsy, ending on “them,” which feels like a stumble, instead of a stronger word like “champion” or “warrior.” And saying “she fights for the rights and causes I believe…” makes you expect the next word to be “in” not “need.”
If I had been her writer or copy editor, I would have suggested something like,
I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she will be a champion for rights and causes that need a warrior on their side.
I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe in.
I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she will be a warrior [or champion] for the rights and causes I believe in.
Yes, I know two of them end a sentence with a preposition. That’s because I agree with
I would like to thank my writers room, sub editors, chief editor, publicist, agent, and manager for their help in creating this post.
The typist never gets any credit.
I agree, and I like your rewrite. I think this is more evidence that Swift wrote the post herself and that it didn’t get a lot of review, except probably in the general sense that she was going to take a political stand.
Just to wrap up this off-topic tangent, we’ll just have to disagree on this.
To say that this sounds “more conversational” than either my version or the one that @needscoffee suggested is at best a very questionable subjective judgment. And this has nothing to do with what a 7th grade English teacher might have preferred. It’s about the natural way we use adjectives in writing and in speech. An adjectival phrase should preferably be located near or adjacent to the noun or noun phrase that it’s modifying, much as we naturally do with adjectives.
No way! I’ve been having this argument with coworkers, editors, and clients for decades. 
Actually, the spike is not just how many visits to Vote.gov, but of how many people clicked through to their state’s registration link from Vote .gov. So it’s a bit better than just visiting the initial Vote .gov , but it’s definitely not 400k registrations.