{"id":88348,"date":"2024-09-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88348"},"modified":"2024-09-23T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T16:25:47","slug":"cults-of-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88348","title":{"rendered":"Cults Of Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE:  Mitch BERG is looking for arrowroot flour at a local co-op.  Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, a twenty-something graduate of Saint Olaf, and of Camp Wellstone. Moonbeam works as a telemarketer for \u201cMinnesotans United for All Progressive Causes\u201d, steps around the endcamp. <\/em><\/p>\n

BIRKENSTOCK: Merg.<\/p>\n

BERG:  Hey, Moonbeam. <\/p>\n

BIRKENSTOCK:  So Drumpf really stepped in it this time.<\/p>\n

BERG: (With mock concern, tempered with a bit of fatigue<\/em>). What?  Again?<\/p>\n

BIRKENSTOCK: (Oblivious<\/em>).  Yep.  Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala!<\/p>\n

BERG:  You don’t say.  I mean, that was pretty much a foregone conclusion long ago. <\/p>\n

BIRKENSTOCK:  Yeah, but here’s the best part:  He insulted her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BERG: Oooh. Bad. Really really bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIRKENSTOCK:  This probably ends the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Well, it ends something<\/em>, anyway<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only 6% said it made them more likely to vote Harris, while 13% said it made them less likely to\u2014though ABC News noted<\/a> that those who responded negatively to the question were \u201coverwhelmingly Trump supporters\u201d (Forbes has reached out to ABC News and Ipsos for more data).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the poll found Swift\u2019s endorsement didn\u2019t even help Harris much in the expected key demographic: Just 8% of women under 30 said they were more likely to support Harris, 13% said they were less likely and 78% said it made no difference.<\/p>\n

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BIRKENSTOCK. So why insult her and risk all those votes?<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Not sure it affected any votes that weren’t going to go to Harris anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0 Hah!\u00a0 Young women are fierce and independent and…and…I just can’t…<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Shake it off.<\/p>\n

\u00a0And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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