With less than two months until the general election, two leading public police organizations are "hitting the road together to save the American dream."
The Values Bus, sponsored by The Heritage Foundation and the legislative affiliate of the Family Research Council (FRC), is making its way through the swing states to impact "get out the vote" efforts and voter registration.
Joshua Shepherd, marketing associate for The Heritage Foundation, says out of roughly 60 million evangelical Christians in the United States, only 30 million are registered voters. But more troubling is the fact that only 15 million actually vote.
"Family Research Council is really devoted to maximizing the vote among Christians, maximizing the vote among the faith-based community and making that happen," Shepherd details. "They have tools to not only … get people registered to vote, which we do on college campuses especially, but also to make sure that you reach out to five or ten of your neighbors with some of the materials they provide."
The Values Bus has been on the road since the middle of January, showing up at tea party events, churches, college campuses and conventions.
"Family Research Council has more of the faith-based contacts [like] the churches; Heritage Foundation more so the public policy groups … state think tanks and some of the tea party leaders," the marketing associate explains. "So by combining our resources on this tour, we're really making an exponentially bigger impact."
Along with voter registration, the tour promotes the "Saving the American Dream" initiative -- The Heritage Foundation's plan to fix the debt problem by cutting spending and restoring prosperity.