The group is deploying hundreds of people to get Democratic candidates on video taking positions on hot-button topics like felon voting
The debate over allowing the Boston Marathon bomber to vote started with a man named Rick in Muscatine, Iowa.
In the opening months of the campaign, the organization has trained hundreds of volunteers in early voting states and sent them to more than 150 events where they ask questions around planned topics. To the organizers, the field of more than 20 candidates has a long way to go meet its demands. But already the effort is forcing some staunch civil liberties and voting rights advocates to grapple with how their priorities are playing out on a large stage.
“It jump-started the issue, and I’ve seen a lot of support for that position that I wouldn’t have guessed was out there,” Mauer added. “But I would hate to see us have another Willie Horton election where we just get a very distorted discussion of an issue that’s important to democracy, but it’s one of 100 issues that should be debated, not the sole one debated.”
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