It’s link based; vote.gov doesn’t actually register — they connect people with the correct state voter registration website.

A lot of people don’t pay attention to politics, and don’t realize things like the need to register to vote since their last move, since their name changed when they got married, etc. They just want to shake it out.

It’s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAm5OCgZ6so#t=3720s

I figure it’s the spray-tan which doesn’t go on right next to the eyes.

A big chunk of Swifties are in their 30s at this point

She likely needs to win in Pennsylvania to win, and opposition to fracking would cost her votes there.

Attitudes in the state are changing, but not yet at the point where she can openly oppose fracking and win.

Taylor Swift endorsed Biden in 2020. She did not endorse Clinton, though apparently considered it.

This was likely prepared well before the debate, and timed to reach a large audience.

This is why you chew your food kids!

One of the great pleasures of being a mammal

He’ll spout words, likely ones which make it clear he’s going to make good on his side of the oil industry’s billion-dollar bribe.

Making that clear to people is likely a big deal

Version 1:

• The world is going to end real soon
• they expect to be raptured away to Heaven
• God put stuff on the earth for us to use up before the rapture

Version 2:

• Somebody else is going to suffer because of the environmental damage
• Hurting other people shows how masculine and powerful I am
• I profit from the damage
• Damage = good

There’s a significant impact from the higher temperatures.

It’s not just the management history, though that doesn’t help.

That’s a very plausible claim, but difficult to prove

A fair-sized chunk of this fall’s electorate was too young to vote in 2016, and doesn’t have a real sense of how awful he is, or how much has deteriorated over the past few years.

A lot of people don’t pay much attention until shortly before the election.

His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can’t give a decent explanation of what he’s going to do on a particular topic.

Mental capacity.

He’s very good at tossing out free association, and showing that he’s in touch with the latest racist meme.

Anything else? Not so much.

Also, they’ll borrow huge amounts of money so the handful of people making 10 million can pay 500k less in taxes.

The IRA is absolutely a bill which uses capitalist mechanisms to achieve some decarbonization.

I’d love to get rid of PG&E and have a publicly-owned utility instead, which doesn’t charge the @#$@#% markup the PG&E gets to in order to pay an ever-increasing dividend.

Which is why lobsters have been shifting northward, with populations rising on the north edge of their range, and declining on the southern end.

Not exactly what we want humans to be forced to do.