Two smartest, funniest women covering Election 2008 for other women who are guarding their votes carefully

I am basically wiping away tears of joy. Where else can we find smart, insightful commentary on the NH ABC/Facebook debate scene -- from the "changiest" candidates to the correspondents and their UGG boots -- with such a fantastic lack of pomposity and nary a whiff of punditry?

Why, from BlogHer's righty and lefty correspondents, Mary Katharine Ham (of Townhall.com) and Morra Aarons-Mele (also of Womenandwork.org), who posted Morra and MKH in New Hampshire: Contest for the Changiest Candidate! this morning.

And they're just the tip of the omnipartisan iceberg over at BlogHer last night. The BlogHer community's live-blog commentary on our open thread put the racist and sexist commetns on Facebook to shame. As Professor Kim Pearson put it,

"Wonder how much people making the inane comments on FB even understand the discussion taking place here. By the way, this discussion is a like a grad school seminar, while the Republican panel had the tenor of a barroom argument. No one has called anyone else a liar or smirked (as Romney did) while his or her opponents make their points."

See for yourself:

Think kind of voter intelligence will turn the tides on the lack of attention BlogHer's Election 2008 guide has managed to obtain from presidential candidates, which I've blogged here: Women bloggers to presidential candidates: Stop ignoring us and don't pander if you want our votes?

If I were one of these candidates, I'd want a personal interview with one of these videobloggers and an opportunity to speak directly to a network of more than 8 million influential women who blog. Wouldn't you?

Comments

[arse poetica]

Awesome! Fantastic! I am so proud of all that BlogHer and its community have achieved. And it just gets better. xoxo

[Lisa Stone]

Arse poetica, as I live and breathe, happy new year! Thanks mucho. Me too. Hope to see you this year...