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"Special dispatch from Washington! Our D.C. correspondent, Linda Kramer Jennings, spoke with the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, a group working towards advancement for women in politics and contemporary art, and got a first-look look at these numbers from a new poll conducted in conjunction with Lake Research Partners. These results won&amp;#x27;t be officially released until Tuesday, but you can get a first crack at &amp;#x27;em right here.Yes, just another reason for you to love The Conversation. *brushes off shoulders* OK, now for the numbers! The survey talked to 1,000 likely voters in key states, which included 200 young women age 18-35, for a special aim at seeing how women of our age responded to women candidates. &amp;quot;Designed to examine voters&amp;amp;#8217; attitudes toward women candidates and elected officials on both sides of party lines, this poll explores whether voters agree with the President and their beliefs about the disparities in leadership between women and men.&amp;quot; Here are six of the most interesting finds of the survey with regards to us, the young women voters: To motivate voters, including young women voters, to vote for women candidates, it is best to focus on how women elected officials are in touch with real life. This includes some kitchen-table economic issues like the price of food, and emphasizing how Congress needs to be more diverse in gender, racial, and age representation to reflect the actual population of the U.S. As we have seen in the past, the strongest predictor of voting for a woman is the perception that women govern differently than men. Today, voters are divided on this, but these messages move voters, especially younger women, in that direction. A woman candidate being in touch is the best frame. When it comes to priorities, birth control and contraception engages women voters, especially younger women voters. 78% of young women voters found it effective to highlight that Congress needs to be more diverse, with an emphasis on improving Congress&amp;amp;#8217;s racial diversity and increasing the number of younger members, rather than just focus on adding more women to address inequality. 69% of young women voters found it effective to highlight the gap between women&amp;amp;#8217;s representation in Congress in relation to proportion of the general population, along with facts about the US having lower representation by women than Afghanistan and Rwanda. Messages traditionally used by advocates for women&amp;amp;#8217;s political representation, such as messages that focus on women leaders having the right priorities and the ways women leaders are less partisan and work better, were the weakest messages and had half the power. The rest of the study&amp;#x27;s findings are just as fascinating as these, so keep your eyes peeled when the official results are released on Tuesday. You better believe we&amp;#x27;ll be talking about them, and about women in politics (and how we can get more of us in the ring!) Do any of these finds surprise you? Do you feel differently as a young woman voter? What does it take for you to vote for another woman? P.S. 43% of women have no clue who they&amp;amp;#8217;ll vote for in 2012...do you? Photo: Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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