Thanks, Lisa. I took the survey, and I look forward to seeing the results.

ae
arse poetica

Here's my two cents over at TechPresident.

Maybe it's about Iowa and New Hampshire and that's it....

Hi Lisa. I took the survey, and also posted on it at "The Political Voices of Women". I'll post on it at "Informed Voters" tomorrow.

Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
also at CatherineBlogs.com and The Political Voices of Women

By the way, the conversation is also continuing over here on my newsletter post.

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

That strikes me as really strange. I mean, I get that spouses are part of the campaign team, but we need our questions answered by the candidates, obviously.

I took the survey...

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess.

I just completed the survey.

I don't think women want to be put in some special category that needs handling. We are as capable of judging issues on the face of it as male voters.

It doesn't sit well with me when the candidates take a position that women, who number over 50% of the population and registered voters, aren't worth responding to personally.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

I wrote a post about this after the BlogHer conference. I'd love to see the candidates themselves talking to us. I vote and I care.

BlogHer Contributing Editor, Sports and Fitness
Sarah and the Goon Squad
Draft Day Suit

I took the survey, too. While I love that the candidates' wives talk to us, I think the candidates should be addressing us as well. After all, the candidates are officially running for office, not the spouses.

Suzanne Reisman, Contributing Editor - Feminism & Gender
Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS)& Other Rants

I am new here, my opinion is subject to change as read learn more about this site. However I must say this article I just looked over..well the first thing that comes to mind is 'WoW!'

Over all it reads like this to me. Your whining because you were turned down on your offers. It came off self important, and rather childish with vein attempts and making it seem you are the key to getting the female vote. I don't know if that was your intention or not but it sure seems like it.

The truth is I had never heard of this site until yesterday. And I found out about it in rather obscure way via your Second Life outings and video casts from there. Speaking in the scheme of my internet activity it was a obscure way of finding this site, because I am politically active engaged female voter. I am no stranger to the new media and the revolution that has started because of this new media. I have read blogs for some time and have recently started bloging myself though it is more for my personal entertainment. If others find it interesting so be it. I am an active participant in one the newest web 2.0 experiments called Second Life. The point being is perhaps they decline your invitation because they don't view it as something that will be the best way to spend their time. There was blogging before blogher, and no doubt will be should something happen to blogher. The blog sphere is big place and this is but one smallish cog in it comparatively speaking to the whole.

Let's face it these people at this point have to use shoot gun approach at getting in touch with would be voters. I can't begrudge them at finding the most effective targets to send media blast at. Beyond that blogging, web 2.0, is new still largely unproven technology. The media dinosaurs though on the way out still run the show and are waiting to see if it sticks or not. They haven't figured out the all important question of how do we profit from it. What really scares them is, they can't control it. Sure they can hire people to perhaps push it, nudge it or sway it, but make no mistake it's wild beast that can easily claw your face off just as much help you.

It also comes across as you have your favorites picked out. If that's the case why as candidate would I want to waste my time with people who have already made up their minds, or expose myself willingly to people who will be hostile toward me and my causes. If you genuinely want to offer a platform for open debate and exchange of ideas I'd suggest slightly less visibly slanted point of view. You claim your non-partisan. This article doesn't read that way at all. It only got worst as read on with the two political commercials toward the end.

The Obama one was fairly classic approach reach out to the undecideds and guide them to the promise land. I get so tried of that line of horse doodoo, to put it politely. Yeah reach out to them to make them see it your way or else. Do you think they will give 2 cents about you if you decided to vote for someone else. How about instead encouraging people to learn the issues from all sides and vote upon the information you garnered yourself and were not spoon feed by some glossy finely crafted words, or the self proclaimed experts other wise know as celebrities. And then you stand on the issues, and for good or ill the informed people decided if your views are the ones that most closely match with theirs. Oh no, can't do that then we'd have people who are thinking for themselves. That's dangerous!

Just as it couldn't get any worse there was the Hilary advert... Vote for Hilary we will give you prizes! After I barely suppressed the reflexive reaction of spitting my diet soda all over my monitor I literary just sat in my office chair blinking for easily five minutes just marveling. The level of pandering in that advert is new all time recored. Don't join us because we care about the issues that matter to you, nope it was the 'do you want a cookie little girl?" tactic. Amazing truly amazing....

I read many of the comments and what confuses me is there is the over all agreement that you want woman voters to be treated equally. Yet at the same time you want to be personally addressed. Nay, you are demanding that they answer your questions! Well it can't work both ways, my friends. If you want to be treated like everybody else that means you have to wait in line like the rest until the candiates deem the value of their time is best spent addressing the crowd at blogher.

These are just my opinions based on my observations. Yes I know like said I am sure most of you hate me now. I do apologize to those that might find my views offensive and have interrupted your day. I will not however apologize for my views. Take them or leave them, but I am not such very un-ordinary woman, so I doubt I am the only one with similar feelings on what I read here. I just thought you might like to know what some outsider and new comer might be seeing. It might help you evaluate why perhaps you have been thus far turned down.

Lucinda
Goddess of Giant Robots

Ah you said the magic words that one so rarely hears Agree to Disagree! It's good to see there are those still out there willing to come to a civil end as that. I do want to clarify a few of the points.

Please by no means did I ever suggest you stop doing what your doing! And I did re-read and yes I can see that I didn't have enough of the mentioned diet soda with it's elixir of caffeine in my system. I see now what your saying far clearer thanks to you taking the time to point me in the right direction. I am a passionate person and get worked up and perhaps shoot off sooner then I should. I am woman enough to admit when I was wrong.

On the point about Web 2.0 being unproven I should make it clear I agree with you it is shape of the future of nearly every facet of our lives will be and it here today. It will be part of how we, work, play and live. However in old media's eyes it is unproven or they are hoping it is. As stated they still don't know how to fully quantify directly the results of web 2.0 outing. They don't know how to make the bottom line with it. And as stated it really dose scare them. What little control they can have over it can be lost in instant. That is the real thing that is holding them back from getting with the program. Eventually they will or they will be lost to the pages of history. I think these times are much like what happened in entertainment when talking pictures were introduced. A good many people thought it was a fade back then. Some people who weren't cut out for the new world we left by the way side. But I wander to far from the point. Which is the candidates are having to still deal with the old media types and also they themselves are boggled by this very different and rapidly changing world. Who can blame them on some counts. I am involved in it and sometimes even I have trouble with keeping up.

I was perhaps to harsh in the way made my points. Over all really what I was trying to say is I doubt this site is being singled out to be ignored. I think it far more likely that the candidates are simply trying to find ways to reach the broadest base of people at this point in the race. We are still year out from this thing, and please if you don't want to read a tirade a mile long lets not even get into the fact the this election and how early it started. OK just quick one..TWO years out this started. At this rate a President will have to win two terms to actually do anything. First year would be to get settled in, year two they get some work done and year three and four they have to campaign for the next election. ACK!

Don't give up but don't assume they won't ever respond, we are in the first round of 12 round fight.

Thanks for taking the time to read, and respond. And Yes please keep pushing it's all we can do. Best of luck to you.

Be Well

Lucinda
Goddess of Giant Robots

Every voter who isn't in Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina or Nevada is basically getting ignored right now, unless they are a voter...at the same time, campaigns target blocs of voters, because it's an efficient use of their time. Nurses. African Americans. Women. So we're saying, you're targeting women voters, here's a few million of them, have at it.

And campaigns are saying, wait, we have more urgent needs. The Obama campaign did it right, with Oprah, in early primary states. Hillary brought her mother and daughter to campaign with her. In Iowa. That's their prerogative. That's the American electoral system, where early primaries are all-powerful. But it sucks.

By the way, here's a good project: The National Presidential Caucus

Interesting poll. I responded and hope that it will help keep womens issues in the campaign if Hillary doesn't make it as the democratic nominee.

Birdsword