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The U.S. voter registration service has experienced a spike in numbers after Taylor Swift expressed her support for two Democratic candidates and encouraged her 112 million Instagram followers to register to vote in time for next month’s U.S. midterm elections.
Kamari Guthrie, the director of communications for vote.org, told Buzzfeed News there were 65,000 registrations in the 24-hour period after the singer posted her statement to Instagram on Sunday.
Several conservative commentators mocked Swift in the wake of her statements, but WIBC host Tony Katz says not to discount the artist nor brush her impact aside:
“Politics is downwind of culture. And in this culture, you realize the kind of power people like Taylor Swift hold; it’s a tremendous amount.
…Taylor Swift has 112 million followers on Twitter. If you don’t think she has an impact, you couldn’t be more wrong. Now yes, Taylor Swift went full talking points in her statement, and she was wrong in what she said, but the impact cannot be denied.”
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