Even Shadow Senator Paul Strauss had a car in the parade. And a classic one, to boot.

One of these guys might be the next president, so it’s good to try and parse where they stand on District voting rights. At least that was the thinking over at D.C. Vote, who recently recorded and sent in a number of videos of District residents asking the presidential candidates from the Republican Party where they stood on D.C. voting rights.

The videos, eleven in all, were submitted to CNN for the upcoming CNN/YouTube debate between Republican presidential hopefuls in St. Petersburg, Florida, set for tomorrow at 8 p.m. Among the questioners D.C. Vote rounded up are Robert Kabel, Chair of D.C. Republican Committee; Harry Thomas Jr., D.C. Councilmember, Ward 5; Yvette Alexander, D.C. Councilmember Ward 7; Nelson Rimensnyder, Vietnam veteran; Marcus Skelton, Chair of D.C. Young Republicans; Chandrai Jackson Saunders, Teacher, D.C. Public Schools; Tonya Vidal Kinlow, Ombudsman nominee, D.C. Public Schools. There is even a D.C. resident dressed like Abraham Lincoln. The video submissions can be viewed here.

According to CNN, 3,500 video questions were submitted and 40 will make the cut, putting voting rights up against a large number of submissions and issues that may have more importance nationally and internationally.

Of the Republican candidates, only Mike Huckabee has spoken favorably of District voting rights. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) voted against allowing a measure that would grant the District a voting seat in the House to proceed to a vote on the Senate floor (and has been paying for it since), while Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Ca.) and Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Col.) all voted against the measure when it came before the House in April.

We’re betting that if any of the questions get asked, the candidates — spare Huckabee, of course — will likely side with D.C. voting rights as a concept while not saying a whole lot about how the current situation can be remedied. Except Rudy Giuliani, though, who will probably throw in some not-so-discrete reference to how he saved New York from the post-9/11 fallout.

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