The Political Voices of Women

I am happy to announce that this weekend, our Political Voices of Women Community has surpassed 100 members.  Our growing community is a mix of political opinions and affiliations, from liberal to conservative, and everything in between.  [see community here]

The Political Voices of Women (main site), began as a list of 100 women political bloggers.  In less than a year, that list has grown to well over 500 (see list here).  We now have a growing community, and have recently added twelve contributing editors…

• Kay B. Day
• Sarah Granger
• Tami Winfrey Harris
• Pamela Lyn
• Patricia Murphy
• PunditMom
• SJ Reidhead
• Suzanne Reisman
• Janet Shan
• Dana Tuszke
• Tracy Viselli
• Jill Miller Zimon

In addition to our regular contributors, we also have many guest bloggers each week.  The Political Voices of Women is becoming a powerhouse of women political bloggers.

Our community members can contribute posts to our blog, and often these posts are used as guest posts on the primary site.  Here are some of our most active community members…

• Penny Ronning - The NonSilent Majority
• Deb Della Piana - Turn Left Hypocrisy.com
• Emily D - Political Artwork
• Marcia G. Yerman - The Huffington Post
• Anita S. Lane -Unconventional Politics
• Card-carrying Buddhist - No Blood For Hubris
• Just Wondering - Vim and Vinegar
• Nancy Hill - Build Peace
• Carol Gee - South by Southwest
• Zaftig Redhead -The Zaftig Redhead
• Doris Anne Bearlieu - Life’s Ultimate Test
• Emily Kronenberger -  New Wave Grrrl

Members can comment on posts, start and participate in forum discussions, promote their personal blogs, upload videos and images, make new friends, and more.  Our main site is open to both men and women, but our community is strictly women…I think the all women aspect of our community promotes “real” and “honest” discussion, without the need for visoral and personal attacks.  Even though we often disagree within the community, we also want to promote a safe place for these disagreements, so respectful disagreement is what you will find here.

If you are a woman who blogs (or would like to blog) about politics, I hope you will consider joining our community.

A lot of people are writing some excellent stuff about Sarah Palin, John McCain’s vice presidential selection, so I wanted to gather what I could and post it as a roundup below. First, I want to say a couple of things about the coverage of Palin.

1. The Palin’s parenting choices and that of their children are off limits because they really have nothing to do with her qualifications or her positions on the issues. I don’t care if her daughter is pregnant or about her childcare decisions.
2. The fact that Palin is a woman has nothing to do with her qualifications and everything to do with John McCain’s agenda to cast himself as an agent of change–nice try but Palin represents no perceptible political change–neither does McCain.

• Here is EVERYTHING you’d ever want to know about Palin and her positions on important political issues–brought to you by Progressive Accountability.
• Natasha Chart discusses just how typically conservative Palin is at MyDD.
• Joe Trippi warns Democrats to take the Palin selection very seriously because her selection signals a direct attack by the McCain campaign at Obama’s strength–change in Washington.
• Josh Marshall outlines the intricacies of Palin’s “Troopergate” and shows why it matters that McCain’s vetting process was not as thorough as it should have been.
• Heather McDonald discusses the Palin selection in the context of identity politics.
• PunditMom reminds me that she picked Palin as McCain’s selection when almost no else did and why
• Jen Nedeau compares McCain’s Palin to Bush’s Harriet Miers.
• Some Republicans are not happy with the vetting and selection process the McCain campaign followed in selecting Palin. This DailyMail article tracks Republican reactions to the Palin selection.
• What is and what is not feminist? Ruth Rosen tackles this question while discussing Palin and her association with Feminists for Life.
• Jill Miller Zimon also tackles the idea of feminism and how the Palin selection effects that idea.
• And if you still haven’t gotten your fill of Palin coverage, you can read everything on Huffington Post about Palin.

For local coverage of the Palin selection, here are some progressive Alaska bloggers who know Palin better than most:

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/
http://divasblueoasis.blogspot.com/
http://kodiakkonfidential.blogspot.com/
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
http://alaskareport.com/blog
http://mysternyc.blogspot.com/

If you’re like me you can’t wait for the new season of “Real Time With Bill Mahr” to begin because whether you agree with all of Bill’s views or not, he does have a way of cutting through the cow dung and making a point.

In the following clip from Larry King Live, Bill Mahr points out: why Hillary Clinton would be a good VP choice (believe it or not; why the Obama campaign is losing much of its luster with progressives; the role that race is playing in the presidential campaign, and more.

url:http://www.politicstv.com/blog/?p=4157

A feast for any political junkie

All week we have been celebrating women political bloggers.

Monday, I posted on the first 100 women blogging politics, from our list of over 500. Tuesday, the next 100. Wednesday, the next 100. Thursday the next 100. And today, I will be posting the last part of our list of 100+ women political bloggers.

One of my goals for this site, is that women will use each other’s sites, to link to in their own blogs, and promote each other.

You can help promote women political bloggers, by linking to them on your own blog. And, if you know someone not on the list, please send me their link, and I would be happy to add them.

Maybe you can even do a post on women political bloggers for your own site, and link to some of the women on this list.

So, here is the next 100 on our list…

1. The Catharine Chronicles
2. The Civil Right — I am a 40-something marketing professional, writer, wife and mom living in Iowa who blogs conservative.
3. The Common Ills — This is a great site, pro-choice, left.
4. The Confluence
5. The Course of Some Human Events - Blogging on Webtech and Politics.
   
6. The Crone Speaks — My life experiences of being a mother, a caretaker of parrots, a breast cancer survivor, a business woman, a paralegal, and so much more, have shaped my conclusions on any given issue.
7. The Dame Domain
8. The Delaware Curmudgeon
9. The Demo Memo — written by Claire Celsi
10. The Democratic Daily - Founder, Pamela Leavey
11. The Dishpan Chronicles
12. The Divine Democrat
13. The Essentia Sphere
14. The Garance — Politics and Whatnot
15. The Goddess — Progressive politics, civil rights, freedom of religion, and commentary from a Pagan perspective.
16. The Gypsy’s Caravan
17. The Hackenblog
18. The Hand Mirror
19. The Hill Chronicles — Conservative weblog with a piffy twist.
20. The Impolitic
21. The Jaded Hippy
22. The Lady Speaks
23. The Little Pink Clubhouse
24. The Mahablog
25. The Motherhood — The power of mothers, making things happen.
26. The National Intelligence
27. The New American Revolution
28. The New Homemaker!
29. Penny Ronning - The NonSilent Majority
30. The Official Site of Lydia Cornell
31. The Ones Who Get Screwed — This site expresses my opinions on the world today. While you can disagree with them, they can not be wrong as they are mine and not yours.
32. The Ones Who Fly Away From Omelas
33. The Only Baggage You Can Bring
34. The Outskirts — Served From Philly’s LGBT Side of the Tracks
35. The Pakistani Spectator — Hi I am Ghazala Khan from Pakistan, I have been one of the very few female bloggers from Pakistan I run a blog with another female Amna Gilani, the title of our blog is The Pakistani Spectator.
36. The Peeled Apple
37. The Pink Flamingo
38. The Political Safari with Laura Fiorilli — A collection of interesting, often funny political stories and Web links.
39. The Punkin Patch
40. The Reaction with Libby and Carol Gee
41. The Savvy Sista
42. The Silent I
43. The Sin City Siren
44. The Sirens Chronicles — Bitchy politics, culture critiques, manners, morals & random thoughts served with hot chicken soup & a loaded .45 caliber handgun in the apron pocket.
45. The Soccer Mom Vote — If you want to win the election, you’ve got to capture the soccer mom vote. Many political strategists keep their eye on this demographic, described as a moderate block that can swing for either party depending on the issue in focus any given election cycle. They’ve tried to describe us. They’ve tried to persuade us. They’ve even tried to charm us. The one thing they haven’t done is ask us what we think.
46. The Truffle
47. The White House Project — If you could do one thing to change America for the better, what would it be? At The White House Project, we believe that if you add women to the ranks of leadership, you change everything.
48. The White House Project Blog
49. The Women’s Media Center — The WMC is the first of its kind. Our mission is to assure that women and women’s experiences are reflected in the media just as women are present everywhere in the real world; that women are represented as local, national, and global sources for and subjects of the media; and that women media professionals have equal opportunities for employment and advancement.
50. The Women’s Post
51. The Zafting Redhead
52. Think Girl
53. Amanda from Think Progress
54. ‘This & That’ Politically Incorrect
55. This Can’t Be Happening — A nice middle-aged Midwestern woman staying in touch with the reality that the USA, like Rome, will fall if we do not exercise our freedom of speech, listen critically, and uphold the Constitution. (It`s possible to be nice and an angry liberal.)
56. This Girl’s Weblog — just me, my thoughts, and experiences.
57. This is my United States of Whatever!
58. Maggie Thurber — Thurber’s Thoughts — I’ve started this blog to share thoughts on issues and concerns that face Lucas County. Some of the items I discuss are issues I voted on when I was Commissioner.
59. Toledolefy — A personal blog focusing mostly on politics.
60. TruthHugger — Question with boldness, education, philosophy, humanity, culture, religion, social science
61. Twilight Notes
62. Urban Hang Suite
63. Using My Words
64. Vaccine Awakening — Barbara Loe Fisher is the mother of three children, a writer and speaker on vaccination and informed consent issues.
65. Vanessa: Unplugged!
66. Vickie Rock - at RockSpot
67. Vim and Vinegar
68. Viva La Feminista
69. Verna Smith — “Putting the zip in politics!”
70. Vivian J. Paige — I learned a lot about politics as the result of my run for City Treasurer. This blog is my way of staying in touch with those who supported me and reaching out to those who did not.
71. Wacmagnet: Common Sense from a Ditzy Blonde
72. Wanderlust
73. Washington Woman — Thinking, speaking, writing, and being active on issues that affect women, children, society and the environment. Emphasis on women`s issues both social and political. Washington State to Washington DC.
74. What About Our Daughters?
75. Watergate Summer — It is a Politically driven Blog that also is written by a mom and nurse so it explores the Impact of this Administration on a single mom as well as my neighbors and friends.
76. We The Purple
77. Webutante (the sequel) — I am a conservative woman living in the Southeastern US and the Rockies, depending on the season.
78. Weezie Lou — a yankee in a red state, semi-intelligent, well-read, lesbian, left centrist, pisces moody
79. Well Read Hostess
80. What Do I Know? (politics AND food!)
81. What Tami Said
82. White Noise Insanity — by Kay in Maine — White noise is a low dull sound that drowns out other sounds (simplistic definition but you get the idea).
83. Whose America is it Anyway?
84. Winding Road In Urban Area
85. Woman Honor Thyself–Angel
86. Women & Hollywood
87. Women and Work
88. Women In Media and News — Women In Media & News, a media analysis, education and advocacy group, works to increase women’s presence and power in the public debate. WIMN’s POWER Sources Project provides journalists with a diverse network of female experts.
89. Women Want Answers
90. Women Who Think
91. Women’s Space/The Margins — A radical feminist, not the fun kind.
92. Womenstake — Our Take On What’s At Stake
93. Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip
94. Work It Mom — A Conversation With Hanah Storm
95. Write Stuff — I write because I must. I write for teenagers, and adults, and the teenagers who live within most adults. The heart of the young adult has all the passion and power and drive and energy needed to change the world.
96. WriteChic Press
97. Jill Miller Zimon — Writes Like She Talks — Politics and parenting.
98. Yankee CowGirl
99. Yeah, Right, Whatever
100. Young, Political & Fabulous - Lindsay

There are also women writing blogs about the presidential candidates they support…

1. Ann Marie for Mitt Romney
2. Moms 4 Mitt
3. Positively Barack
4. Women For Edwards
5. Women For Hillary
6. Women For Obama
7. Women For Romney

So, there you have it…Our list of 500+ Women Blogging Politics.

If you are a woman blogging about politics, and your name is not on the list…Please leave me your link in comments.

Don’t forget to join our community. Among other things, community members are able to post on the community, and possibly have their post used as a guest post on this site.

This is from a post and podcast on Reproductive Rights, by Suzanne Reisman at BlogHer.

A few weeks ago, it occurred to me that reproductive rights were not the number one issue for all women voters in the country. In fact, it seemed to not even be the number one issue for women of childbearing age or women who care about women of childbearing age. As someone obsessed with my right to self-autonomy, I wondered what was up. A quick investigation into the matter led me to conclude that many women didn’t prioritize reproductive rights as an issue because they falsely assumed that both candidates supported the full spectrum of reproductive rights.

. . .

To find out more about the role of reproductive rights in national, state, and local elections in 2008, I spoke to the president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards. We discussed everything from John McCain’s anti-choice voting record (out of 119 votes he cast on reproductive rights issues, 115 are construed as anti-choice by NARAL) to abortion rights as part of the Democratic party platform to critical issues in state elections, such as the California ballot initiative for parental notification and South Dakota’s ballot initiative to ban abortion. Richards insight into the issues should not be missed.

. . .

Read Suzanne’s full post and listen to her podcast at BlogHer.

Celebrating Another 100 Women Political Bloggers.

All week we are celebrating women political bloggers. Monday, I posted on the first 100 women blogging politics, from our list of over 500. Tuesday, the next 100. And today, another 100 women political bloggers.

One of my goals for this site, is that women will use each other’s sites, to link to in their own blogs, and promote each other.

You can help promote women political bloggers, by linking to them on your own blog. And, if you know someone not on the list, please send me their link, and I would be happy to add them.

Maybe you can even do a post on women political bloggers for your own site, and link to some of the women on this list.

So, here is the next 100 on our list…

1. Left In Lowell
2. Left Side Out — The moderately liberal views of a left side out lesbian.
3. Liberal Common Sense — National and Ohio political site by a “liberal” libertarian.
4. Liberal Life of a Navy Wife
5. Libertarian Girl
6. Liberty Street with Kathy
7. Life In These United States — Rantings From A Midwestern Puerto Rican/Irish Gal
8. life’s journey — An independent, progressive woman who tries to see the bigger picture, and speak the truth.
9. Linda Hirshman — Liberal Principles
10. Little Miss Attila
11. Living My Life Like It’s Golden
12. Liz Henry’s BlogSpot
13. Logophile
14. Lone Pony
15. LonerGrrrl –The rants & musings of a feminist loner who loves writing and rock music
16. Lorelei Kelly — Huffington Post
17. Lorie Byrd — Commentary on current events, entertainment and everday life delivered with a Southern drawl.
18. Loydletta…nooz and comments — Commentary on Politics, People and the News - especially in Minnesota. Focuses on Culture War issues: Gay Rights and Politics, Evolution vs Creationism. Written by a Lesbian Republican.
19. Lynn Sweet with The Scoop From Washington
20. Mad Kane
21. Magpie Musing
22. Majikthise — Lindsay Beyerstein is a freelance writer based in New York City. Her blog, Majikthise, provides daily coverage of local, national, and international politics from a left liberal perspective.
23. Make It Stop — A left wing view of the world from a non politician resident of the city of the District of Columbia (who waits patiently for voting rights to be extended to her and other DC citizens)
24. Mama Noire
25. Mamma Loves — I’m a mom of three boys who spends her weekdays in an office realizing how much adults really act like children. I know stay-at-home moms work their asses off. I’m not getting dragged into that dividing issue. My husband rocks!–when he’s not pissing me off. I went to school in New Orleans, so I want to see the city rebuilt!!
26. Margie’s Musings
27. Marian’s Blog
28. Marie’s Two Cents
29. Marilyn’s Non-Violent Newspage — Every single moment of every single day there are beautiful and ugly happenings taking place within our world. My goal with this page is to cause you, the reader, to be moved enough to want to be part of the beautiful.
30. Married To Politics
31. Mary Katherine Ham — From Townhall.com
32. Mauigirl’s Meanderings
33. MaxedOutMama
34. Media Girl — an online community blog by and for women (and men, too) to discuss, rant, blog, analyze, and/or laugh about media, politics and culture, all within the general context of progressive politics and feminism.
35. Media Lizzy & Friends — From Inside the Beltway and the 2008 campaign for the US presidency, to the grit of Nashville, and all the way to the Red Carpets of LA - Media Lizzy and her Posse - are delivering insight, analysis, and a strong dose of reality.
36. Messages From Hell
37. Michelle Malkin — I’m a mother, wife, blogger, conservative syndicated columnist, author, and Fox News Channel contributor.
38. Midnight Blue
39. MindfulMom
40. Miss Politics — A progressive political blog that also details the antics of this thirty something blogger.
41. Miss Wild Thing
42. Mixter’s Mix
43. Modern English — Thought, opinion and review from the great city of Chicago with an urban left perspective by Christine Escobar: once schooled as a journalist, now relishing the enlightenment of unschooling, raising kids and citizen journalism.
44. Mojo Mom
45. Mom-101
46. Mom’s Speak Up — Moms Speak Up is collaborative blog of writers from various backgrounds. We’re talking about the environment, dangerous imports, health care, food safety, media and marketing, education, politics and many other hot topics of concern.
47. Momma Politico
48. Momma’s Always Write!
49. Mommy Life
50. MOMocrats — Welcome to Momocrats! This site is dedicated to putting a Democrat in the White House in January 2009, and effectuating real change in our nation. We are a group of moms who have come together to support the candidate we think will make a positive change in our nation and has the best chance to win the general election.
51. MomsRising — MomsRising has a goal of bringing millions of people, who all share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America, together as a non-partisan force for 2008 and beyond.
52. Mona Gable at the Huffington Post
53. Cece at Montana Netroots
54. Montana Women For: Education and Advocacy
55. Moonbeam McQueen
56. Moonseed’s Weblog
57. Morra Aarons — Political Contributing Editor for BlogHer and The Huffington Post
58. Mosquito Blog — Whenever you feel small and insignificant remember the power of the mosquito. If you think you’re too small to be effective, you’ve never been in the dark with a mosquito.
59. Muckraking Mom
60. Musings
61. My Bit of Earth
62. My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
63. My View of It — How I see the world.
64. Kim Gandy of NOW
65. Sue J — Nailing Jello To The Wall
66. Nancy Scola — I’m a non-fiction writer and — for lack of a better way to put it — activist who lives and works in Brooklyn.
67. Neogaia’s Blog
68. Emily Kronenberger — New Wave Grrrl - New Wave Grrrl is a policy-focused health information and resource-sharing venue for women with a special focus on health parity across gender lines, sexuality, advocacy, and women with disabilities. I blog frequently about political and policy issues that impact the health of women and girls.
69. NEWSgrist - where spin is art
70. Newshoggers
71. Nice Deb
72. Nite Swimming - Is mostly politics.
73. No Blood For Hubris — Freestyle liberalesque socio-political blog avec a modicum of snark.
74. Slim — No Fish, No Nuts — I’m a woman and I blog about politics; I’m a liberal atheist lawyer, mom, baker, and tae kwon do blackbelt (not necessarily in that order).
75. No More Apples — No More Apples is written by Motherlode, director of communications at one of the world’s largest construction companies. I’m a lifelong Democrat who blogs on politics from a progressive perspective … but I might be changing my political registration to Independent if the DNC doesn’t quickly reform and return our party to its traditional values.
76. NoneoftheAbove
77. Notions of Identity
78. Now For Something Different — A blog that encourages the wide spread use of common sense.
79. Nudemuse…daily nattering
80. Nyceve and others at Daily Kos - Dailykos.com
81. Obama who ?
82. Obsidian Wings
83. olbroad.com
84. On The Fringe
85. One Mom — homeschooling, conservative mom blogging for Mike Huckabee, homeschool issues, Christianity, life in the United States
86. One Mom’s View — Where politics and motherhood meet for coffee.
87. One Plus Two
88. One Tenacious Baby Mama (adult content) — “first of all, you will not like me. that’s not necessary. i hope you’ll keep reading, anyways…”
89. Oooh, nuance!
90. Op-Edna — Op-Edna is an opinionated yet open-minded, left-handed, left-leaning twentysomething female desperately trying to convince enough people to care about the world they live in and the governments that control it.
91. Opinions Unlimited
92. Our Bodies Our Blog
93. Pacific Views
94. Pajamadeen
95. Pamala Lyn — Pam’s Coffee Conversation
96. Pam’s House Blend…always steamin’!
97. Pamela on Politics - BET.com News
98. Pandagon
99. Peggy, As She Is — Wife, Mom, Sister, Writer, Thinker, Feminist, and so much more…
100. Pen-Elayne on the Web

Help celebrate women political bloggers. If you do a post on our list of over 500 women blogging about politics, leave me a link in comments…I’ll be mentioning these posts as friends of The Political Voices of Women in a future post.

The Political Voices of Women also has a community. Join the community, and be a guest blogger on The Political Voices of Women.

We are continuing to Celebrate Women Political Bloggers.

All week we are celebrating women political bloggers. Yesterday, I posted on the first 100 women blogging politics, from our list of over 500. Today, I have the next 100.

One of my goals for this site, is that women will use each other’s sites, to link to in their own blogs, and promote each other.

You can help promote women political bloggers, by linking to them on your own blog. And, if you know someone not on the list, please send me their link, and I would be happy to add them.

Maybe you can even do a post on women political bloggers for your own site, and link to some of the women on this list.

So, here is the next 100 on our list…

1. DebsWeb
2. Deep Muck Big Rake
3. Defending The Environment
4. Delaware Way
5. Democracy For New Mexico — by Barbara W.
6. Detroit News Politics Blog
7. Diary of a Content Black Woman
8. Different Drummer
9. Dirt & Noice
10. Ditzy Dems, Part Deux
11. DogWoman
12. Cynthia Samuels — Don’t Gel Too Soon
13. Dragon Lady’s Den
14. Dragonfly Ranch Blog
15. duh pookie
16. E. A. Hanks at the Huffington Post
17. Echidne Of The Snakes
18. EconomistMom
19. Education and Class
20. Emily’s List
21. Engaged Intellectuals
22. Envision Art Studio — A blog about politics, religion, feminism, freedom, racial issues, the environment, peace, love, philosophy, mental health, and life from my female perspective.I won`t claim to always be right but I will hope to always make you think.
23. Erin Kotecki Vest — Political Contributing Editor for BlogHer — Also see her personal blog Queen of Spain
24. Essential Estrogen — written by Lynda Waddington and Paige T
25. Faboo Mama — Inside the mind of an opinionated mama
26. Fact-esque — I look at politics from a lefty perspective. I`m also interested in the political reporting of the NYT. I wander off-topic so often that I`m wondering if “off-topic” even applies anymore. But I`m always in the ballpark of progressive politics.
27. Feminism in 2008 Election and Beyond
28. Feminist Cupcake
29. Feminist Fire — I have given up trying to fit into any ‘feminist movement’ or anywhere else, for that matter. I am just me. The label which most suits me is ‘Radical Feminist’. I have no time at all for in-fighting within the movement - I believe we are all on the same side and should just get along and concentrate on getting the job done.
30. Feminist Law Professors
31. FeministBlogs.org
32. Feministe
33. Feministing — Young women are rarely given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures. Feministing provides a platform for us to comment, analyze and influence.
34. FOOTNOTED
35. Frances L. Holland at The Truth About Kos
36. Frankly, My Dear…
37. Free Soil Party Blog — Discussing Feminist Revolution
38. Freedom Eden
39. Frog Princess
40. From My Brown Eyed View
41. From Scratch — A lot of chatter about food (plus a little about politics)
42. Frustrated Incorporated
43. Georgia Women Vote — A view of the Georgia political scene from the perspective of a Democratic women. We cover the local politics, events, legislation, opinion, and the occasional gossip!
44. Get The Facts & Get Involved
45. Girl With Pen
46. Glamocracy - Megan Carpentier
47. Gloria Feldt - HeartFeldt Politics Blog
48. Golden Apple Press
49. GOP Vixen — The blog of columnist Bridget Johnson
50. GOTV with contributing editor, Alice
51. Granny Geek
52. GRAPEVINE — Georgia Federation of Democratic Women
53. Great Satans Girlfriend - courtney is an awesome discovery and she NEVER minces words.
54. Green Consciousness
55. Grizzly Mama
56. Hagar’s Daughters
57. Health Populi — Jane is a frequent public speaker and writer on health policy, health economics, information and medical technology and scenario planning in health care.
58. Hear Speak No Evil
59. High Desert Reports
60. Hillary Is Our Choice - forum
61. Hillary’s Bloggers
62. HillRaiser 08
63. Hog House Blog
64. Hoyden About Town — We blog on life, laughs, science, progressive politics and foiling diabolical masterminds.
65. Hullabaloo
66. Iddybud Journal
67. I Hate Your Opinions — A cynical political blog with 2008 election coverage, book reviews of autobiographies of presidential candidates, and more
68. I Wish I Were In Paris
69. I’m Tired of Voting For Men
70. Illini Family Politics
71. Impudent Ways — tattooed tea enthusiast. like that’s original.
72. In Jennifer’s Head
73. In The Pink Texas — Humorous Texas and national political blog targets a readership of influential legislators, lobbyists and media. Has received over 700,000 hits since it launched last year.
74. In Women We Trust
75. Inches Away From Sanity
76. Independence Lost
77. Informed Voters 2008 — I’m a 30-year old wife, mom, daughter, sister, friend, veteran, citizen, patriot, wanna-be environmentalist and conscientious voter.
78. Irrational Woman
79. Is That All You’ve Got?
80. It’s Curtains For You - nanc is a breath of fresh air in a stale world.
81. It’s My Right To Be Left of the Center — The truth doesn’t care where you or I stand on an issue. I want to see through the bullshit of it all and find the Truth. It’s there somewhere.
82. Jac’s Notepad - an election 2008 diary
83. Jen’s Green Journal — My blog is 1/2 politics and 1/2 green living (which is becoming more and more political)
84. Jenn’s Journey As a Conservative - jenn is an awesome woman of conscience and conservative values stuck somewhere in n.j. and she’s always a fun read.
85. Jessica Mondillo’s Blog — I am a freshman at Boston University. I’m an 18 year old girl with very different views than many of the people around me. I enjoy intelligent conversations and seeing other people’s views.
86. Jo Jo Says…
87. Julie Pippert: Using My Words
88. Katharine Seelye — From the New York Times
89. Kathleen Reardon — Huffington Post
90. Kay at Covering Florida
91. Kentucky Women: Power, Passion and Politics
92. Kitten Politics
93. Kim Pearson — Contributing Editor BlogHer
94. Kirsten Anderson — Huffington Post
95. KristinaMarina
96. Kiss My Big Blue Butt
97. La Shawn Barber’s Corner
98. Last Left Turn Before Hooterville — A liberal political blog from the perspective of a rock chick mom who wants a better world for her 4 kids and is not going to sit around and wait for it.
99. LaurieWrites
100. Lawyer Mama — Geeky is the new cool.

Help celebrate women political bloggers. If you do a post on our list of over 500 women blogging about politics, leave me a link in comments…I’ll be mentioning these posts as friends of The Political Voices of Women in a future post.

Celebrating Women Political Bloggers!

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the 500+ women who are blogging about politics. Women are playing a powerful role in politics, and women bloggers are helping to lead the way. Our list of women blogging about politics, has just reached over 500!!!

To celebrate, I will be posting links to 100 women today, and then again each day, for the rest of the week.

One of my goals for this site, is that women will use each other’s sites, to link to in their own blogs, and promote each other.

So…If you have some time today, check out the first 100. Have you discovered some blogs you like? Let me know in comments, or in a post.

You can help promote women political bloggers. And, if you know someone not on the list, please send me their link, and I would be happy to add them.

Maybe you can even do a post on women political bloggers for your own site, and link to some of the women on this list.

Here are the first 100 from the list (in alphabetical order)…

1. A Brain Like Mine - Diary of a Feminist Housewife
2. A Lovely Promise — Human rights, war and peace, politics, and gardening.
3. A Mommy with an Attitude
4. A Series of Tubes — How are political groups using the internet to reach out to citizens? From YouTube debates to Facebook groups, this blog will tell you all about it.
5. Above Average Jane - PA Politics and GREAT interviews with pols and candidates
6. Nikki — According To Nikki
7. Adventures In Daily Living
8. Althouse
9. Always On Watch
10. Amanda Carpenter — From Townhall.com
11. American Princess — Party politics and the age of the Post and Prada
12. And Rightly So — I am not a politically correct person at all. I speak my mind and I could care less who I offend when doing so. I call a spade for a spade when needed. I also swear a whole lot - get ever it.
13. Anderson @ Large — I blog about politically black news and commentary, focusing on voter participation, voting rights, civil rights, religion and politics, and voting rights and technology.
14. Anna’s Clue Tank
15. Annie’s Inferno
16. Anonymous Is A Women — A blog about politics, religion, the economy, the culture wars - you know, all the fun stuff.
17. Antigone Magazine — A blog about women, politics, women in politics and the politics of being a woman.
18. Appetite for Equal Rights
19. Arianna Huffington — Huffington Post
20. Sandy Renshaw — Around Des Moines
21. Asheville on the Ground
22. Assorted Babble
23. Avedon Carol
24. Average Jane at Progress Ohio — Our mission is to provide quality online and off-line tools for use by individuals, groups and organizations to further their ideas and issues through communication and action.
25. A. M. Reynolds — Backyard Beacon — The Backyard Beacon is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan citizen-based watchblog that sheds light on underreported stories, particularly those in minority communities. The Beacon is a Newstex.com licensed Weblog distributed through the LexisNexis services.
26. BackyardConservative — Comments and Links from a conservative in the Chicago suburbs. This blog is a product of over 25 years of biting my tongue in polite society.
27. Bang the Drum - Rant and ramblings of a political junkie.
28. Barbara’s Blog
29. Barbara’s Tchatzkahs
30. Becky from Deep Muck Big Rake — So much muck, so little time.
31. Been There
32. Betsy’s Page
33. Big Girl Pants
34. Big Green Purse
35. Birth Pangs
36. Biscotti’s Blog
37. Black On Campus
38. Black Political Thought
39. Black Women, Blow The Trumpet!
40. Black Women Blogging
41. Black Women Vote!
42. Blatherings
43. Blog Fabulous
44. Blog For Democracy
45. Blog It Forward
46. Bloggg
47. Blogging Amerikkka
48. Blogging For Michigan
49. BlogHer — A community of Women Bloggers
50. BlogHer — Election 2008
51. Blogs By Women
52. Blonde Sagacity — The conservative that liberals hate to love.
53. BlondeSense
54. Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
55. Blue Bloggin — My liberal blog focuses on Texas and national politics, political corruption, the environment and what every else pops in my head.
56. Blue Gal
57. Blue Girl, Red State — I’m an over- educated, pissed-off redhead with a broadband connection and a credit card; fiercely dedicated to the Constitution; here to remind y’all that America is founded on four boxes: 1.)The Soapbox. 2.)The Ballot Box. 3.)The Jury Box. 4.)The Ammo Box. They should be used in that order. This is my soapbox.
58. Blue Linchpin
59. Blue Spot
60. Blue Star Chronicles
61. Bluedaze — You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. - Mahatma Gandhi
62. BOHEMIAN Adventures
63. Bold Words — Exploring How Bold Words Can Give Life To Bold Ideas
64. Bottom Line Up Front — Amy
65. Bride of Acheron
66. Brilliant at Breakfast
67. Brown Sugar
68. Build Peace — Arizona-based blog by a woman peace activist, mother, writer, anthropologist, semiotician — most often political, but not always. Original scoops and reporting have included Raging Granny arrests and Howard Dean`s positive interactions with Arizona CODE
69. BWFO — Black Women For Obama
70. Care2 Election Blog
71. Catzmaw’s Commentary — I mostly write about issues like the Iraq War, legal issues like habeas corpus and Guantanamo, and the like. Lately I’ve been writing about radiation therapy.
72. Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis
73. Center for New Words — The Center for New Words is dedicated to a simple mission: To use the power and creativity of words and ideas to strengthen the voice of progressive and marginalized women in society.
74. ChangeServant — Big ideas Random thoughts Irregular musings
75. Chicago Moms Blog — The Chicago Moms blog is a collaborative group of moms writing about their lives in Chicago, Ill.
76. Chicken Hawk Express — Robin
77. Choose or Lose
78. Citizen Against Lies
79. Chronicles of Dissent — Fighting back against the erosion of privacy and civil liberties in post-9/11 America.
80. Citizen Jane Politics
81. Code Neon Blue!
82. Coleen Rowley — Huffington Post
83. Completely Unnecessary
84. Confessions of a Closet Republican
85. Connie Talk
86. Conservatism With Heart
87. Conservative Ally
88. Conservative Belle
89. Conservative Amazons — Conservative Amazons is written by a group of college-age conservative women who say that liberal feminism doesn’t tell their side of the story.
90. Conservative Girls Are Hot
91. Conservative Politics Today
92. Cool Crys Chronicles
93. Cooper and Emily — BlogHer Acts
94. Cooper at Wonderland or Not
95. Cosmo and Me
96. Country Dawn
97. Cynthia’s Interests — My blog is eclectic. I talk about everything from politics, to religion, to education and heath. I`m honest, yet I`m not always politically correct. My views are strictly told from an African American woman`s perspective.
98. Dana Tuszke — Political Contributing Editor for BlogHer
99. DC Metro Moms — The politics of parenting.
100. Dear Kitty, Some Blog

Help celebrate women political bloggers. If you do a post on our list of over 500 women blogging about politics, leave me a link in comments…I’ll be mentioning these posts as friends of The Political Voices of Women in a future post.

Calling All Women Political Bloggers!

The Political Voices of Women started out as a list of 100 Women Political Bloggers. Today, the list has over 400. Well, 497 to be exact, and we are much more than just a list now. We have 10 contributing editors, a community of almost 70 women, and opportunities for all women bloggers to express their political opinions as guest bloggers.

We are just shy of 500 women political bloggers. It’s my hope to reach 500 by the end of this weekend. And, you can help. I’m hoping to celebrate by publishing the list (100 blogs at a time) each day next week. Help us reach the goal of 500.

Are you a woman who blogs about politics?

Are you on the list?

Do you know a woman blogger who should be on the list?

We just need three more women political bloggers to hit the 500 mark!

So…Check the list, and if someone is missing, please give me their link here in comments.

This is an excerpt from BlogHer Contributing Editor Suzanne Reisman’s post, on how women vote when it comes to reproductive rights.

Maybe people don’t prioritize reproductive rights as an issue in this election because they think neither candidate really opposes them. For example, Planned Parenthood produced a short (and entertaining) video about McCain’s track record on the issues vs. Bush’s, and most people were unaware that McCain is even more extreme than Bush in some instances. For example, he does not believe that insurance companies should be required to cover birth control. (And if you think that this won’t happen, the movement to ban the pill is well underway. Allowing insurance to deny prescription drug coverage to women for ideological purposes is only step one.)

When people learn what a candidate’s position on reproductive rights is, does that change their perception of the candidate? (If yes, I’m assuming this means that the reproductive rights issue is actually very important to voters, but they don’t realize it because they don’t think that the election will jeopardize them.) Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post reports that:

Over half of all women in these states have no idea what McCain’s positions are on reproductive health. Forty-nine percent of women in battleground states who currently favor McCain are pro-choice. Twenty-three percent of them believe McCain agrees with them on choice.

Read Suzanne’s full post at BlogHer