None other than Mitch McConnell owes his political career to felon disenfranchisement. McConnell won first election to Senate in 1984 by 5,000 votes but roughly 8,000 disenfranchised ex-felons in Kentucky would have been expected to vote for his Democratic opponent pic.twitter.com/k156Ee7NZD

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 3, 2018