Religious leaders announce vote campaign

Faith leaders who sit to the left in U.S. politics say they won’t let the religious right claim the moral mantle in the elections of 2014.

In September they announced a campaign to boost voter registration and encourage voters, particularly in poor and immigrant communities, to go to the polls.

Ted Strickland of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a Methodist minister and former governor of Ohio, said he and others will go door to door and church to church to press their message: that people of faith should pursue fair and just public policy.