While candidates seem to have an endless opportunity to express their political views on camera, approximately 1,000 people stopped by CNN’s Election Express Yourself tour stop at City Hall Plaza yesterday to vent, endorse candidates and talk politics.

CNN Assistant Marketing Manager Keisha Taylor said CNN officials started the Election Express Yourself tour because they were interested in public opinions on the upcoming midterm elections.

“Heading up to midterm elections, we wanted to head out on the road and hear what people have to say,” she said. “The country is really divided politically right now and everyone seems to have an opinion on the upcoming election and government.”

Taylor said people are responding well to the tour and she learned everybody has a political opinion.

“Everybody wants to be heard and everybody has something to say when it relates to politics, and I think people are just glad to have the opportunity to say it,” Taylor said.

Participants gave what Taylor called “political shout-outs” that may air on CNN, answering questions that included their personal definition of politics, why this election matters to them and what they would do if they were president.

Madeline White of Concord, N.H., told CNN that, if she were president, the first thing she would do is “clean up the garbage on television.”

White identified Iraq as one of the main campaign issues she cares about on camera.

“It brings me to tears — literally — when I see the news,” White said. “When I see the people in Iraq, they’re just as human as we are, and they’re losing their husbands, their family, they’re all shot up.”

Boston resident Hector Galarza said he was on his way inside City Hall when he saw CNN’s tables set up outside.

“I usually watch [CNN] a lot,” he said.

Galarza said he thought City Hall Plaza was a good place for CNN to set up, because it is “where everyone comes, it’s definitely a hot spot.”

Galarza said he identifies himself as a Democrat, but he said he usually votes for the candidate whose views are most similar to his.

“I’m open-minded to both sides,” Galarza said.

CNN visited nine other cities before arriving in Boston, Bryan Kweskin, freelance camera operator for the event, said.

Kweskin said that the camera crew is getting “a lot of good stuff” from people, and that the news anchors at CNN are starting to pay attention to it.

“All the news guys want to see our tapes,” Kweskin said. “It’s getting public opinion, and that’s genuinely newsworthy.”

“It means so much to people that we actually care what they think,” Kweskin continued. “I let everyone feel like their opinion is important, and it is.”

Kweskin said the tour has been such a success and CNN plans to tour the country again for the 2008 elections.