I have frequently mentioned the lack of attention to the criminal justice system in this year’s presidential race.  It seems I spoke too soon. According to Politico blogger Jonathan Martin, Rudy Giuliani has recorded robocalls on behalf of John McCain featuring Obama’s opposition to manditory sentences and suggesting that the Democrat has been palling around with (shudder) “liberal judges”.

Rudy takes to phones to hit Obama on crime

Rudy Giuliani is portraying Barack Obama as soft on crime in robocalls being blasted out to swing states by the RNC and the McCain campaign.

The call comes on the heels of a mailer being sent out by the Florida GOP focused on crime, an indication that even while on the stump, John McCain focuses on contrasting himself with Obama on taxes and spending, his campaign and his party are using other wedge issues in a more targeted fashion as Election Day nears.

The focus is on the Democrat’s opposition to mandatory minimums, and the bill of particulars is tough.

“You need to know that Barack Obama opposes mandatory prison sentences for sex offenders, drug dealers and murderers,” Giuliani says. “It’s true. I read Barack Obama’s words myself.”

To legally ensure that the RNC can share the cost, the former New York mayor adds: “And recently congressional liberals introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory prison sentence for violent criminals, trying to give liberal judges the power to decide whether criminals are sent to jail or set free.”

One voter in Maine got the call this morning, a sign McCain is still pursuing the lone electoral vote in the state’s 2nd Congressional District.