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A commenter forwarded this story to the DCist tipline, and we also got a press release from ABC News announcing the same program: a "50 States, 50 Days” election coverage project co-produced by ABC News and USA Today.
ABC News and USA TODAY will launch an unprecedented news project on Monday, September 15, to report from every state in the nation during the 50 days leading up to the presidential election. ABC News’ anchors and correspondents and USA TODAY’s reporters and photographers will report on one state each day in the run-up to the historic vote on November 4. The stories will focus on issues facing voters in their respective states. Every ABC News platform will contribute to “50 States, 50 Days,” including major road trips on “Good Morning America,” “World News with Charles Gibson,” and “Nightline.” USA TODAY will cover seven states a week in the newspaper, with two states being featured on Monday’s and Friday’s. ABCNEWS.com and USATODAY.com will share news content and produce complementary interactive features.OK. But in producing a feature on every state over the course of 50 days, will they also be covering the District of Columbia?“As we approach this watershed election, ABC News and USA TODAY will go to every corner of this great country to report on the hopes and concerns of Americans as they prepare to cast their votes,” said David Westin, President of ABC News. “Having worked on many successful joint editorial projects over the years with USA TODAY, we could not be more pleased to partner once again with them.”
"Yes, we will," said ABC News spokesperson Bridgette Maney. Maney said ABC hasn't released their schedule yet, but producers will stop in D.C. in the course of their cross-country trip.
We were all set to get our D.C. inclusion guff up on this one, but we suppose "50 States, 1 District, 50 Days" doesn't have the same kind of ring to it.
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So who gets to share their day with DC?
Of course they'll come to DC, but will they actually talk to DC residents, DC voters, people who aren't here to work for the federal government?
The Dakotas just get .3 day, we get the rest?
They will talk to three congressional staffers, and the required walk into Ben's Chilli and call it quits.
What is it that's making this November 4th vote an "historic vote"? The media keeps calling it that - isn't this the same election we have every 4 years?
I guess it's historic in that we finally have a chance to elect either the oldest dude ever as president or a african-american.
and by "a african-american" i ment "an african-american". aaaaaaaaaaah.
ABC is sending correspondents around the country? 50 in 50 (or 51 in 51)? During an election year in this, the 21st century? Astonishing. Incredible. Almost unbelievable. Whoopdie.
According to all politicos, the coming election is always the most important election ever. Meaning that it's more important that the last election, which was also the most important election ever. At least up to that point.
Of course what this means it that this election will be the 3rd least important election of the 21st century.
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands can't catch a break.
dont they do this kind of stuff every year?
They will talk to three congressional staffers, and the required walk into Ben's Chilli and call it quits.
I think you mean - required reporting from Tryst.
Slow news week, huh?
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands can't catch a break.
They will be featured with DC, the Dakotas, and Alaska.
Now guess which states get more than one day.
even if charlie gibson fails in his hard-nosed journalistic attempt to show every facet of our D.C. in a single day, i am comforted to think that the blonde charity mafia will be ready and standing by to show off all the diversity and quirkiness of our fair city. um, state. whatever.
I think when they mean "stop in DC", they mean, quickly drive through to avoid Bush from running outside thinking the ice cream truck has finally come to his neighborhood and use old footage of random tourists in their FBI hats and I heart DC t-shirts standing in front of the Capitol building calling it the White House.
Joking aside, I'd be willing to bet that Virginia, Maryland, and DC get lumped together in a couple days worth of compare-and-contrast coverage. News flash! Southern Virginia largely conservative! Northern Virginia, DC, and close-in Maryland suburbs all very similar!
fedward: you forgot "fire hot!"
Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa can not vote for president. They have no electoral votes.
The political parties can let them vote in primaries though.