GOP downplays the Taylor Swift effect

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GOP downplays the Taylor Swift effect
by Caitlin Yilek
 | October 10, 2018 02:48 PM



Republicans this week downplayed pop star Taylor Swift's foray into politics by saying she had little to do with surging voter registration, and said they'd be happy to give her the "facts" about Democrats that might make her flip her political allegiance.

Swift this week endorsed two Democratic candidates in her home state of Tennessee on Sunday, the first time she had ever made a political comment as a pop music giant. On Tuesday, she called on fans to vote during an acceptance speech at the American Music Awards, but didn't say how they should vote.

Vote.org attributed a significant increase in voter registrations both nationally and in Tennessee to Swift’s encouragement to vote, but Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Swift might be getting too much credit.

“I think you can’t attribute all those registrations to Taylor Swift,” McDaniel told Fox Business on Wednesday. “I know she’s very powerful, but it was the last day of registration, and we usually see an uptick.”

McDaniel, who said she’s a fan of Swift’s, also invited the pop star to the Republican National Committee headquarters to educate her about Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn. In Sunday’s endorsement of Senate candidate Phil Bredesen and House of Representatives candidate Jim Cooper, Swift wrote that Blackburn’s voting record “appalls and terrifies me.”

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[Emjay]

GOP downplays the Taylor Swift effect
by Caitlin Yilek
 | October 10, 2018 02:48 PM

Vote.org attributed a significant increase in voter registrations both nationally and in Tennessee to Swift’s encouragement to vote, but Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Swift might be getting too much credit.

“I think you can’t attribute all those registrations to Taylor Swift,” McDaniel told Fox Business on Wednesday. “I know she’s very powerful, but it was the last day of registration, and we usually see an uptick.”

McDaniel, who said she’s a fan of Swift’s, also invited the pop star to the Republican National Committee headquarters to educate her about Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn. In Sunday’s endorsement of Senate candidate Phil Bredesen and House of Representatives candidate Jim Cooper, Swift wrote that Blackburn’s voting record “appalls and terrifies me.”

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It continues to amaze me that people in the entertainment business choose to get into politics, and some of them get really nasty about it.

Not a huge fan of Taylor Swift but don't these people realize that they are alienating half of their potential audience.  I have lost respect for so many TV and movie stars in the past few years and that has translated into my losing interest in seeing their movies or TV shows.

And so many politically slanted movies have bombed recently it should give them a clue.

[Emjay]

Just saw on Fox that the Music Awards show, which has become totally political, drew 29% fewer viewers this year.  Consequences, baby.

[dfwgator]

[Cyber Liberty]

"Taylor Swift Effect?"  Who writes these headlines??

[Frank Cannon]

What effect is that? Ratings poison?

Ratings Crash: Taylor Swift Headlined American Music Awards Hit All-Time Low

https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/10/10/taylor-swift-american-music-awards-ratings-all-time-low/

Pop star turned Democratic activist Taylor Swift headlined the American Music Awards Tuesday night, and the ratings dropped to a new all-time low.

The Wrap reports that ratings for the American Music Awards telecast fell to “a new record low in TV ratings,” even lower than the previously record-holders for the lowest rated AMAs in 2017 and 2016.

[jmyrlefuller]

Here's the funniest part about all of this.

The Democrats just got their clock cleaned by trying to turn a sexual assault accusation into a political weapon. So now they trot out... ahem... the singer-songwriter whose songs such as "Picture to Burn," "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," and my personal favorite of sorts "Mean," excoriate men, accuse them of adultery, threaten violence against them, and claim they're all drunk losers. (The bridge on "Mean" sounds eerily similar to Hillary's "basket of deplorables" in their mutual contempt for those who they dislike.)

They might as well call themselves the Misandrist Party.