ā€œFlorida Democrats donā€™t know why Taylor Swift is naming an upcoming song on her new album ā€˜Florida!!!ā€™ or the reason she chose to hold three concerts in Miami less than a month before the November elections,ā€Ā PoliticoĀ reports.

ā€œBut their excitement around the news is less about ā€˜why?ā€™ and more about leveraging Swiftā€™s celebrity status to fill the blank space for beleaguered voters tired of losing to Republicans.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ossoff

    Iā€™m not a huge supporter of the guy, but heā€™s young, progressive, really popular with the youth, and just raised more money for his Senate run than any other politician in American history.

    Sounds like heā€™s going to be president anyways eventually, why wait 30 years before itā€™s ā€œhis turnā€?

    Like, remember all the talk about the Georgia runoffs and no one expected Dems to win?

    Ossoff is one of the Dems that won that

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      Didnā€™t recognize that name at all. After reading his wiki I recognized that he was one of the Georgia run-off Senate races. Maybe heā€™ll do some stuff and gain some popularity in the future. From what I saw in wiki the only thing he has done so far is vote with the party and help get a college re-accredidated. The reason his campaign was somhighly funded was because he was running in one of the most contested races in the country that was flooded with cash from all over.

      Iā€™m very glad he won, but also would someone who barely won their district really be a great possible push for a national candidate?

      Also, ā€œnot a huge supporterā€ and have now posted him as a name/possibility all over the thread lolā€¦ You campaign for him? Are you him?

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        7 months ago

        Because just saying:

        Biden himself said thereā€™s over 50 other options.

        Just gets me Biden supporters doing their best owl impressions until I start blocking them for sea lioning.

        Which itā€™s probably time for by now.

        I mean, by the time the fifth person asks the same question instead of scrolling downā€¦ I donā€™t think Iā€™m gonna be missing much. Especially since I edited Ossof into my top reply now.

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          Youā€™ve said the same thing five times and youā€™re surprised youā€™re getting the same response five times?

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            What?

            You really thought I was talking to all the people who kept asking:

            Who?

            I gave the same answer each timeā€¦

            I just donā€™t understand how someone wouldnā€™t have understood that