MayorTV has a series of video interviews with the mayors of Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Denver, Los
Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Rochester and Salt Lake City who discuss the need for an urban agenda and in some cases their own preferences from president (h/t: Brian Knudsen). Where Blog writes:
What this seems to suggest is that day-to-day life for most Americans
has little or nothing to do with the “hot-button” issues that
presidential candidates are so concerned about. Abortion, gay marriage,
and the Iraq war, while all important in their own ways, are by no
means the issues that have the greatest impact on this country, yet
they receive a greatly disproportionate amount of attention in the
media because they are easily polarized issues, and thus much easier to
sell. Meanwhile, people struggle every day with crime, education,
drugs, and economic issues that go largely unaddressed.
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:43 am
Isn’t that just so true. I’m working on a local aldermanic campaign here in Milwaukee and some of the candidates are talking about the War and big pie in the sky level issues. Whereas the citizens really just want the trashed picked up, the snow cleared and safe neighborhoods.