I look forward to Trump’s tweet labeling Swift a stupid, despicable, very bad person.
4chan is having a fit because their ideal “conservative woman” isn’t who they thought she was.
They will have to start a new thread to support “Incels who can no longer fap to Taylor Swift.”
Swift encourages supporters to write his name in the blank space.
Shrewd move by Bredesen to change the subject in TN away from Kavanaugh. There was some movement towards Blackburn over the last week, which may have been news cycle noise or it may be for real. We won’t know until polls are taken 2 weeks from now. By making a splash move like this, Bredesen is accelerating the rate at which Kavanaugh departs the news cycle.
Taylor Swift is a bit of an icon in TN. She has universal name recognition and conservative whites had claimed her as their icon (for some odd reason) because she hadn’t really commented on politics before. This has made a bigger splash than I think even Bredesen anticipated. Good for him.
On another note, Heidi Heitkamp has been campaigning very aggressively since announcing her Kavanaugh vote. An GOP poll by a private polling group has her down 4 points (this is per John Weaver, a former Kasich official) and notes that Heidi is doing especially well in the larger populated areas of ND. With a load of money, a likability and personality advantage over Cramer, plus some good issues splits on the ACA and Tariffs, Heidi has a much better chance than people think of winning re-election. This unpublished private poll does also match in part what a local ND pollster noted, that Heidi is ahead of her 2016 performance in Fargo and Grand Forks, which will supply 27% of the vote (this pollster had the race a tie). If you average all of those data points, 4-6 points seems right, but that can change in a hurry in a small state like ND. In addition, Cramer would need to win the Bismarck area by more than 10 points to win the race. It’s not clear to me that he is running that well in Bismarck. We’ll see, but with about 28 days to go, my money is on Heidi in a head to head race where she is not having to go back to DC.
I would also add that if you look at the big picture, from the beginning of the year to now, most of the Democratic held seats that the GOP has targeted have drifted away from them, while TN and TX drifted on to the big board. That shows the trend is towards Democrats even on a map that was heavily tilted towards the GOP.
Control of the Senate hinges on the following 4 races: ND, MO, TN, TX. In all 4 races, the GOP has a PVI advantage and the Dems have better candidate quality and a better issue mix. If the Dems win 2 of these 4 races, they likely win outright control of the Senate based on trends in other races. That’s a good spot for team blue to be in.
I think I can live with the disappointment of people like those in the screenshot of this tweet:
https://twitter.com/__dso/status/1049121769158844417
Edited to add the direct link to the screenshot:
I’m a little worried about NJ but, don’t think it will flip.
This article goes into some of the back story about how she became a Nazi idol:
Hilarious quote:
“Firstly, Taylor Swift is a pure Aryan goddess, like something out of classical Greek poetry. Athena reborn. That’s the most important thing,” explains Andre Anglin, the writer of the white supremacist blog the Daily Stormer. “It is also an established fact that Taylor Swift is secretly a Nazi and is simply waiting for the time when Donald Trump makes it safe for her to come out and announce her Aryan agenda to the world. Probably, she will be betrothed to Trump’s son, and they will be crowned American royalty.”
I look forward to the CD burning parties , Or I guess in this day and age mass playlist deletions
OH THE HUMANITY!
Ms. Swift is expressing traditional decent Tennessee values. In 1970 Senator Al Gore sr. was targeted by the Nixon campaign as part of the Southern strategy for being soft on hippies etc. In the 50’s he had the decency to refuse to sign on to the odious Southern manifesto promulgated by the likes of Strom Thurmond. Marcia Blackburn’s campaign is just an updated version of the culture war, sadly with some of the same targets.
Haters gonna hare.
Do the InCel guys worship virgins and hate the women who deny them sex? What does that feel like in your brain?
NJ isn’t flipping. Last 2 polls have Menendez at +10. He’ll win going away because we’re gonna win a bunch of House seats in NJ.
Interesting…
I think most trump supporters are not young enough or smart enough to understand downloads. CD is probably the last music technology that they understood, and lots of them are angry baby-boomers whose ship sailed w/o them, and the last new technology they got was 8-track.
But seriously, Now she needs to do a concert for Phil. Think Willy Nelson, but a clean cut version of that.
Agree with others who say she is a BFD in TN, and hopefully she can energize young people in TN (and elsewhere) to come out and VOTE!!!
Bredesen’s recent endorsement of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh,
These mother fuckers will always be around.
I’m a 70+ year old man, who doesn’t really know what Instagram is, and for whom “celebrity” means little or nothing.
Then why do I find this decision and statement by Taylor Swift so encouraging and uplifting?
Phil’s support for Kav will earn him votes from some who would not have otherwise chosen him.
This is Tennessee after all.
Dems will vote for him in any event—except for a very small group of Purity Brigade types who didn’t like him in the first place.
I have never been really been a fan of Swift before (though I have grudgingly admitted she makes great songs. Like REALLY good). I was Team Kanye during the dustup over whether she approved of the lyrics to his “Famous” song in which he said "I feel like me and Taylor still might have sex”. Now I can’t stand Kanye and kinda like Swift after this endorsement.
Damn. Up is down these days.
The Dixie Chicks – A Cautionary Tale.