MayorTV is a challenge from America’s mayors to the 2008 Presidential candidates: start talking about cities.

In today’s presidential campaign, America is all heartland — tractor pulls, county fairs, town halls and truck stops. Candidates scramble for photo ops in plaid, stump in wheat fields and scarf down corn dogs. Our country, it seems, is all country.

Yet we are an urban nation. More than 80% of Americans live in cities. Urbanites drive 90% of our economy. In pandering to rural voters, presidential candidates ignore the bread and butter issues that most Americans deal with every day — housing, transportation, infrastructure, crime, education.