Ed Glaeser asks the presidential candidates: "What about the cities?" Last month, Clyde Haberman wondered the same thing. It’s a good question.

Every rural cornpone mom and pop in Iowa has had a candidate personally promise to put on their slippers on every morning, but what about the majority of Americans that live in urban and suburban areas?

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Turns out The Nation and the Drum Major Institute have just done a video project on it, interviewing ten U.S. mayors, from Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Rochester and Salt Lake City.

The results are on MayorTV.com.

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Here’s my boy Rocky:

Manny Diaz of Miami:

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Villaraigosa of L.A.:

Lots more at MayorTV.