Pop star Demi Lovato to campaign for Clinton

[SecularMotion]

Demi Lovato is adding some star power to an upcoming Hillary Clinton campaign stop in Iowa.

The 23-year-old “Confident” singer will join the Democratic presidential front-runner at an event at the University of Iowa on Jan. 21, Clinton’s campaign announced Friday.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/266102-pop-star-demi-lovato-to-campaign-for-clinton

[madokie]

1. Who

I really don't care to know actually.

[quickesst]

3. That's exactly what I thought...

.... about the dude who just endorsed Bernie. You know, the big endorsement. See, I've already forgotten his name.

[madokie]

4. LOL

Do you honestly think Hillary cares one wit about you or I. I personally don't think she does and by the people who she hangs with I'm afraid my suspicions will be right on.

to each his or her own but I'll stick with the man who is saying exactly what I've been saying for 40 plus years now. Which is more for the poor and middle class, less for the rich and shut down this war machine.

[quickesst]

5. As to your first paragraph...

.. yes, I personally do think she cares. As to your second paragraph, I agree with your first five words. As for the rest, I personally don't think he's made much of an impact or I think I would have at least heard about him before this election cycle began. Elizabeth Warren? That's another story, but don't feel too bad about having to settle for the second choice. After one wades through the crusadelike vitriol, and get to the actual man, he seems to be a pretty good egg.

[riversedge]

7. His stage name turned me off. Reminded me of all the gun violence

[quickesst]

8. LOL

Bernie "Two Guns" Sanders and sidekick Paul "Dead Eye"Kirk
Is this bad? I mean as compared to what has been said about Hillary.

[riversedge]

12. Never heard these name.

[quickesst]

13. "Never heard these name."

maybe I'm a little dense, but I don't know what your words mean . I was using a little humor. Harmless really. Anyhoooo, I'm thrilled that Demi is campaigning for Hillary.

[DesertRat]

11. Wasn't his name was Killer somebody?

[DesertRat]

10. Millennials know who she is

Most of them grew up watching her on tv.

[madokie]

15. I know who she is now but I didn't earlier

I don't think her endorsement will make much difference in who the young people vote for though. The young I've talked to like Bernie Sanders for who he is and what he's stood for all these years and what he still stands for today. I don't know any Millennials who talk favorably of Hillary at all. All I hear around here is about the old man. Maybe its because I'm an old man and they don't want to hurt my feelings for being a Bernie supporter, I don't know.

Bernie has taken a lot of people by surprise is what I see. No one had heard of him mostly but now that they are they like what they're seeing and really like what he is saying. The thing with Bernie over the others, dems or repubs, is his message has been the same his whole political life. For many people that is very important, especially if they agree what is being said.

[DesertRat]

16. My son and daughter are millennials who support Hillary

My daughter is a strong Hillary supporter and volunteer, as are many of her friends in her grad school cohort. I know that there are many young people who are Bernie supporters as well. I'm just glad to see them taking an interest in the process.

[madokie]

18. Thats it

I don't care who they vote for so much as that they Vote. Its when more people vote we have a better chance of having better leaders. Right now less than half of the voters make the decisions we all have to live with.

For years I've been advocating that we need to make Voting a national, if not mandatory at the very least encouraged. Make election days few and make them Holidays. Parades the whole nine yards. Then we can feel we're actually being heard and have the best as our leaders.

[DesertRat]

19. I only care that they vote for Democrats

I agree about election days. I'd like to see voting occur over the course of 2-3 days, maybe a long weekend with a Monday holiday.
But we know that the GOP would fight tooth and nail against that idea!

[madokie]

20. You know it

the democratic Party are most peoples favorite party so I don't worry how people will vote as I think the majority will vote for our candidate.

[Sheepshank]

21. These young kids up for likely their first Presidential vote

...my kids being in that very group, are very aware of Demi Lovato. She is an icon for that group and for that genre of music. I don't know if Demi Lovato's opinions will "make" anyone vote for Hillary, but it will certainly garner interest and an open ear when Hillary makes her Women's issue platform be more widely known.

[Motown_Johnny]

23. +1

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Demi Lovato has an impressive background.

She's a millennial who = a package of minorities and a champion of causes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demi_Lovato

Lovato has received a number of accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, thirteen Teen Choice Awards, five People's Choice Awards, two ALMA Awards and a Billboard Touring Award. In 2013, Maxim ranked her 26th on its Hot 100 list and Billboard ranked her second on its Social 50 Artists of the Year list. Outside the entertainment industry, Lovato is involved with several social and environmental causes. In May 2013, she was cited for her dedication as a mentor to teens and young adults with mental-health challenges at a National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day hosted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Washington, D.C. She has also become an advocate for the LGBT community. In 2014, she was announced as the Grand Marshal for LA Pride week, and that same year she became the face for Human Rights Campaign's Americans for Marriage Equality Campaign.
...
Demetria Devonne Lovato was born on August 20, 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to engineer and musician Patrick Martin Lovato (1960 — June 22, 2013) and former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Dianna Lee Hart (born Dianna Lee Smith; August 8, 1962). Lovato has an older sister, Dallas (born February 4, 1988); a younger maternal half-sister, actress Madison De La Garza, and an older paternal half-sister, Amber, to whom she first spoke when she was 20.

Her parents divorced in the late summer of 1994, shortly after her second birthday. Lovato's father was of Mexican descent (including Spanish, Native American, and distant Portuguese and Jewish, ancestry). Her mother is of Irish and English descent. Patrick's patrilineal great-grandmother, Maria Cristina Perea, was a daughter of Civil War Union veteran Francisco Perea (1830–1913) and a great-granddaughter of Santa Fe de Nuevo México governor Francisco Xavier Chávez.

Really nice to have her on the Hillary bandwagon! Thanks for the post.

But she's not Killer Mike so she doesn't matter.

[Sheepshank]

22. Demi went through a very public depression, anorexia and "cutting" period

She withdrew from the public eye. These millennialist follwed Her trials and were very much concerned and followed and offered support. They watched her overcome the trails and flourish. They know her, have connected with her on many levels and her endorsement will give these many first time voters an impetus to listen to Hillary and not just to here say or detractors.

[BlueMTexpat]

25. Good points all! eom

[stonecutter357]

6. K&R!

[99Forever]

9. Another who gives a shit moment.

So what?

[quickesst]

14. Note to self...

Ask dr. Seuss who the Who gave a shit to.

[MineralMan]

17. Celebrity endorsements have very small impact.

Now, I don't know who Demi Lovato is, but some people do, no doubt. I didn't know who Killer Mike was when he endorsed Bernie, either. Most people are not affected by such endorsements, but a few might be. They don't have very much impact on election results, though.

They're symbolic of something, I suppose, but "don't impress me much," to quote another minor celebrity.

[JonLeibowitz]

26. Killer Mike endorsing led to Shaun King endorsing. Does he matter? n/t

[MineralMan]

27. I have no idea who Shaun King is, so it doesn't matter to me.

Frankly, no celebrity endorsements matter to me at all. I form my own opinions.

[JonLeibowitz]

28. Well, nobody asked if it affected you personally; the question is if the endorsement matters

And FYI, Shaun King is a vocal member of the Black Lives Matter movement.

I'll share with you his wikipedia page so that you can learn more about #BLM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_King_(activist)

[libdem4life]

24. Just another pretty face ... and def a 1%er. I find absolutely no

reason that anyone uninterested in their large incomes would think of "endorsing" Bernie. Also, it gets their name out there...which is how they derive their income.

What is impressive and unusual is when one of the 1%er "stars" endorse Bernie.

[DesertRat]

30. Bette Midler?

[libdem4life]

31. No, I'm sure you got the name wrong. Demi Lovato? However, I don't think celebrity

endorsements for either Team are worth much of anything. I've said that more than once. So, sorry...no squabble this time out..

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Has anyone locked up the all-important Punky Brewster endorsement?

just curious.