18% of Americans: Taylor Swift is part of a covert government effort to reelect Biden

[Florida Man for Crime]

http://www.twitter.com/MonmouthPoll/status/1757797491829821651

NATIONAL POLL: Nearly 1 in 5 Americans (18%) believe @TaylorSwift13
 is part of a covert government effort to reelect @POTUS
 Biden.

Among this group, 71% identify with the GOP, 83% are likely to vote for Trump, and 73% believe Biden won 2020 by fraud.

West Long Branch, NJ – Just under 1 in 5 Americans believe the singer Taylor Swift is part of a covert effort to help President Joe Biden win the 2024 election. At the same time, the Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll also finds that most Americans are supportive of efforts by Swift to encourage her fans to vote.

Just under half (46%) of the American public has heard something about Swift being part of a supposed covert government effort to help Biden win the 2024 presidential election. Just under 1 in 5 Americans (18%) believe such a conspiracy involving Swift exists. Fully 71% of those who believe this identify with or lean toward the Republican Party and 83% indicate they are likely to support Donald Trump in the fall. Also, nearly three-quarters (73%) of those who believe the Swift conspiracy also believe the 2020 election outcome was fraudulent. [Monmouth will be releasing a poll on the 2024 presidential election tomorrow.] It should be noted that the group of poll respondents who accept the Swift story as fact includes some people who claim to have been unaware of it (i.e., 42% of those who say the conspiracy exists also say they had not heard about it before being contacted by Monmouth).

“The supposed Taylor Swift PsyOp conspiracy has legs among a decent number of Trump supporters. Even many who hadn’t heard about it before we polled them accept the idea as credible. Welcome to the 2024 election,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.

On a less sinister note, two-thirds (68%) of the American public approves of Swift encouraging her fans to vote in the upcoming election. However, Republicans (42%) are much less supportive than Democrats (88%) and independents (71%) of these turnout efforts.

Overall, 39% of American adults have a favorable impression of Swift. Only 13% hold an unfavorable view of her, while 43% have no opinion and just 5% have not heard of the singer at all. More than 1 in 4 adults are fans of Swift’s music, including 6% who call themselves “Swifties” – the name taken on by her most ardent devotees – and 22% count themselves among her less intense fans. Interestingly, Republicans (24%) are only somewhat less likely than Democrats (33%) to say they are fans of Swift’s music. In other demographic comparisons, more women (35%) than men (22%) are fans of the singer. Also, Swift fans are more likely to be found among adults who are 35 to 55 years old (36%) than among those either ages 18 to 34 (27%) or 55 and older (22%). This is due in part to the fact that the middle age group is more likely to have children at home. Specifically, parents (33%) are more likely than non-parents (26%) to say they are fans of Swift’s music.

Biden should offer her a position in his administration. Something public-facing like press secretary might be good.

[Alben Barkley]

Russia, if you’re listening, just nuke us now.

Nothing of value will be lost.

[They not like us]

It's a little unfair to characterize this as a position that "Americans" hold when only 18% of them believe it. It's much more fair to say that this is a conspiracy theory believed mostly by Republicans, but it's also fair to say that most Republicans are willing to believe absolutely anything that conforms with their worldview that Trump is the rightful President and the 2020 election was stolen and they are the real victims. You can MadLibs a conspiracy at this point. John Travolta...is part of a...Chinese...conspiracy to use...Scientology...to brainwash Americans into not believing that the Christian God ordained Trump to be the GodKing of America. I'm sure at least 20% of Americans would believe something like that.

[MRS DONNA SHALALA]

It's a little unfair to characterize this as a position that "Americans" hold when only 18% of them believe it. It's much more fair to say that this is a conspiracy theory believed mostly by Republicans, but it's also fair to say that most Republicans are willing to believe absolutely anything that conforms with their worldview that Trump is the rightful President and the 2020 election was stolen and they are the real victims. You can MadLibs a conspiracy at this point. John Travolta...is part of a...Chinese...conspiracy to use...Scientology...to brainwash Americans into not believing that the Christian God ordained Trump to be the GodKing of America. I'm sure at least 20% of Americans would believe something like that.

One third of republicans in this poll agree with the "Taytay is a psyop" statement.
One third of republicans in a 2015 poll said the USA should bomb the city from Aladdin

I wonder what a venn diagram of those two groups would look like. Would it be a circle or two separate circles?

[RI]

You can get 1 in 5 Americans to agree to almost anything in a poll.

[mjba257]

1 in 5 people think Bigfoot is real. 1 in 5 people believe the Earth is flat. 1 in 5 people like to mess with pollsters. I can go on.

[GeorgiaModerate]

1 in 5 people think Bigfoot is real. 1 in 5 people believe the Earth is flat. 1 in 5 people like to mess with pollsters. I can go on.

83% of all statistics found on the Internet are made up.

Anyway, I'll modify the title to include "18%".

[They not like us]

1 in 5 people think Bigfoot is real. 1 in 5 people believe the Earth is flat. 1 in 5 people like to mess with pollsters. I can go on.

83% of all statistics found on the Internet are made up.

Anyway, I'll modify the title to include "18%".

I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who said that!

[All Along The Watchtower]

But what percentage of those think that’s a good thing?

[Progressive Pessimist]

1 in 5 people think Bigfoot is real. 1 in 5 people believe the Earth is flat. 1 in 5 people like to mess with pollsters. I can go on.

Yet those things are somehow less ridiculous than this.

[TheHegemonist]

But what percentage of those think that’s a good thing?

I believe it and fully support it.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

1 in 5 people think Bigfoot is real. 1 in 5 people believe the Earth is flat. 1 in 5 people like to mess with pollsters. I can go on.

83% of all statistics found on the Internet are made up.

Anyway, I'll modify the title to include "18%".

Oh wait. It gets better.  On page 1 on the poll is this gem:

It should be noted that the group of poll respondents who accept the Swift story as fact includes some people who claim to have been unaware of it (i.e., 42% of those who say the conspiracy exists also say they had not heard about it before being contacted by Monmouth).

Monmouth isn't tracking a conspiracy theory, Monmouth is amplifying one.

[TheTide]

Obviously "covert government effort" is a silly way of putting it, but there likely are people in the Biden Administration and campaign who see Swift as a potential asset to the Biden campaign. Of course this isn't unique. Various Administrations have viewed celebrities as being potential assets to their causes.

The most interesting number here might be that around half hold no opinion of her, despite her being supposedly the biggest celebrity in the world. This reinforces a point I've made before about the fragmentation of popular culture. Would Elvis, Michael Jackson, The Beatles etc have gotten such a number at their heights? I doubt it.

[cg41386]

It's true.

[mjba257]

1 in 5 people think Bigfoot is real. 1 in 5 people believe the Earth is flat. 1 in 5 people like to mess with pollsters. I can go on.

83% of all statistics found on the Internet are made up.

Anyway, I'll modify the title to include "18%".

Including that one

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

But what percentage of those think that’s a good thing?

I believe it and fully support it.

I, for one, welcome our new lyrical overlords

[Vice President Christian Man]

I didn't know that Hollywood was a covert government entity.

[Dr. Cynic]

What did you expect?

I mean these are just simple farmers.

These are people of the land.

The common clay of the new west.

You know...

Morons.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Or looked at in another less sensationalistic clickbait way, 82% of Americans do not believe this nonsense.

[Middle-aged Europe]

They also happen to be the smartest 18% of Americans.

[pbrower2a]

1 in 5 people think Bigfoot is real. 1 in 5 people believe the Earth is flat. 1 in 5 people like to mess with pollsters. I can go on.

Yet those things are somehow less ridiculous than this.

Some follies are more dangerous than others. The simpler explanation is that Taylor Swift is a smart person who well knows right from wrong and that Donald Trump is an affront to the conservative moral values even of most political values.

Crop circles,for example, are real. ust take a board and drive it in a circle, crushing the crops underneath, and you have your crop circle -- sans aliens.

[Samof94]

1 in 5 people think Bigfoot is real. 1 in 5 people believe the Earth is flat. 1 in 5 people like to mess with pollsters. I can go on.

Yet those things are somehow less ridiculous than this.

Some follies are more dangerous than others. The simpler explanation is that Taylor Swift is a smart person who well knows right from wrong and that Donald Trump is an affront to the conservative moral values even of most political values.

Crop circles,for example, are real. ust take a board and drive it in a circle, crushing the crops underneath, and you have your crop circle -- sans aliens.

I wonder how these people would think of someone a bit more radical who isn't straight like Julien Baker or Tegan and Sara.

[wnwnwn]

The idea that Swift is campaining for dems is not that strange.
Imagine if New Jersey was a swing state and Springsteen decided to do a small tour there in an electoral year.  Would it be strange?
The problem is that some people see more things. Some think that his current relationship is faked. I'm pretty sure there are more strange ideas out there about her.