After helping to re-elect President Obama in 2012 and advocating for immigration reform in 2013, Sr. Simone Campbell and the Nuns on a Bus have returned for the 2014 midterm elections. Sr. Campbell, who heads the progressive Catholic group NETWORK and spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 2012, has warned in her typical populist tone that “Our election campaigns are now awash with big money.”
The nuns’ efforts to spread their message and increase voter turnout are well planned. Most of the ten states the nuns have targeted have tight Senate races in an election where Republicans are threatening to win back control of the Senate — and many of those have competitive governors’ races. The tour has now been extended to include get-out-the-vote efforts in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, all of which feature multiple toss-up races in the Senate, House, or governors’ mansions.
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