Voters are coming out in droves inTaylor Swift‘s home state of Tennessee after the superstar endorsed Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen.
While the high number of voters is likely due to a number of reasons, the Grammy winner has indeedimpacted many of her young fansto hit the voting booth.
According tolocal news station NewsChannel5, more than one million voters have already cast ballots, nearly tripling the number of voters who turned out for the 2014 midterm elections in Tennessee.
Since early voting opened, Swift, 28, has been sharing photos of her fans — and famous friends — at polling stations around the nation. Last week, she re-posted acute selfie of pals Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds votingon the actor’s birthday.
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Then on Wednesday, the star shared photos ofTim McGraw and Faith Hill(“The King and Queen of Nashville,” wrote Swift on the snap) as well asMaren Morris and her husband Ryan Hurdat their local polling place.
“These two Tennessee women voted for the candidate who has proven himself to be reasonable and trustworthy,” she captioned the photo. “We want leadership, not fear-based extremism. Early voting goes til Thursday and Election Day is November 6. Please don’t sit this one out.”
Swiftbroke her political silenceon Oct. 7 with a heartfelt post about the upcoming midterm elections, revealing she was voting for the Democratic candidate.
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“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently now,” she wrote.
“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country. I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent,” she added.
Swift then slammed Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn, saying the politician’s voting record in Congress “appalls and terrifies” her.
“These are not MY Tennessee values,” wrote the singer before urging her fans to vote. “For a lot of us, we may never find a candidate or party with whom we agree 100% on every issue, but we have to vote anyway.”
According to BuzzFeed, more than 155,000 people visited Vote.org in the 24 hours following Swift’s post. The site on average receives 14,078 hits per day, Kamari Guthrie, Vote.org’s direction of communications, told the site.
source: people.com
