| melissa - Hi! We're Emma Axelrod, Sammi Siegel and Elena Tsemberis -- we're all sophomores at Montclair High School in New Jersey. We've learned a lot about women in politics in our history class, but we were shocked to find out that it's been 20 years since the last time a woman moderated a presidential debate. The past 20 years have been amazing for women in politics. Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice served as Secretary of State, Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House, and Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were major players in the 2008 presidential campaign. President Obama and Mitt Romney know they have to listen to women, because women vote more than men do -- so why can't women be the ones asking questions at presidential debates? Instead of just being angry, we decided to do something -- that's why we started a petition on Change.org asking the Commission on Presidential Debates, which selects moderators, to choose a woman to moderate a presidential debate in 2012. Will you click here to add your name? It's not just unfair that the Commission on Presidential Debates only picks men. It also sends young women like us a dangerous message -- that there's only so high we can rise, only so much we can achieve before it's time for us to step aside and let the men do the real work. Well, we don't think that's true, and we think it's about time to send a new message: that women can and should achieve all our dreams. There are so many amazing female journalists -- Diane Sawyer, Gwen Ifill, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour -- any of them would make great moderators. We know that if thousands of people sign our petition, members of the Commission on Presidential Debates will be ashamed that they are so behind the times, and they will do the right thing. Click here to sign our petition asking the Commission on Presidential Debates to select a woman to moderate a debate in 2012 -- for the first time in 20 years. Thank you! - Emma Axelrod, Sammi Siegel and Elena Tsemberis | 
