A week after opening its downtown Pottstown office and placing a large sign in the window encouraging felons to register to vote, the Obama campaign abruptly removed the sign from its storefront window.

As I pointed out in a previous post, the Obama campaign was courting felons in communities like Pottstown and Norristown, which have high minority populations.

There was no mention of felons in the Obama headquarters in a more affluent community like West Chester.

A spokesman from Obama's Philadelphia campaign office told The Mercury that the decision to remove the sign was made at the local level.

"They just realized maybe it was sending the wrong message and took it down themselves," Sean Smith told the newspaper.

Read more about the felon signs controversy in today's edition of The Mercury.