Yahoo, ABC Turn Eyes to Presidential Race

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Zachary Sniderman
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Yahoo, ABC Turn Eyes to Presidential Race
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The interviews, which can be found on ABC News' homepage and Yahoo News' homepage, will run throughout Tuesday and feature some of ABC's top correspondents chatting with the major GOP candidates in cities across the country. The live streams are part of Yahoo News' "Newsmakers" series. Parts of the interviews will air on ABC shows, but their main audience will be online.

The lineup includes:

George Stephanopoulos to interview Mitt Romney in Chicago

Jonathan Karl to interview Herman Cain in Scottsdale, Arizona

Christiane Amanpour to interview Rick Perry in Austin, Texas

Jake Tapper to interview Newt Gingrich in Washington, D.C.

Terry Moran to interview Ron Paul in Clute, Texas

Ron Claiborne to interview Michelle Bachmann in Charleston, SC

John Berman to interview Rick Santorum in Manchester, NH

Sharyn Alfonsi to interview Jon Huntsman in Coral Gables, Florida

It's impressive ABC and Yahoo are not only live streaming all the interviews online but were also able to wrangle the diverse (and dispersed) GOP field under one digital roof on the same day. The questions so far have tended to be standard fare: Why are you right for the candidacy? How would you fix the economy? There is also still ample time given to difficult and controversial topics.

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