C-SPAN has been traveling around the Southeast by bus this week, in anticipation that North Carolina and others could be battleground states in the 2020 United States Presidential election.
The TV network not only chose Asheville as a stop on Tuesday, but more specifically Christ School. The Greenies were in the middle of a Headmaster’s Holiday when the bus pulled into campus shortly after lunchtime.
The C-SPAN bus is an interactive, mobile studio that visits schools, political events, book festivals, and state capitals. Christ School students and faculty not only got to learn more about the production side of televised political coverage. There was also information at their fingertips about the factors that have shaped past elections like the electoral college.
The bus was open to students for 90 minutes.
The C-SPAN bus program has been featured at 8,000 events and hosted 1.5 million visitors since its inception in 1993, including 800,000 students and 40,000 teachers.
