Last week on The Agenda we brought you a political spectacular in the midst of the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. We stuck with a lot of politics this week, but we brought you some other interesting topics as well.

Starting off, we checked in with HRC Regional Field Director Georgie Aguirre. She came to us live from Las Vegas where she’s mobilizing voters in advance of the Nevada caucuses on Saturday. Listen in.

Then we took a look at how gender is playing in the presidential race. Did Hillary Clinton’s teary moment in New Hampshire soften her image? Are there double standards? Our guest was Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women. Listen to parts one and two.

We stuck with the gender theme but from a different angle. Juli Owens is a transgender educator and the keynote speaker at the First Event conference later this week in Massachusetts. She shared her life as a bi-gendered biological male and previewed her remarks at First Event.

We like to stay unpredictable on The Agenda so we switched gears and had some car talk. It’s the Detroit Auto Show this week and returning guest Joe LaMuraglia was our guest live from the Motor City to give a gay perspective on the new wheels. This founder of GayWheels.com says he’s there to put the ‘mo in Motown.

Back to politics, we were thrilled to welcome Peter Beinart to The Agenda. He’s the editor-at-large of The New Republic and has a new book out titled The Good Fight. In it he renounces his position in favor of the Iraq war and argues that it’s only liberals who can win the fight against terrorism.
Listen in.

Finally we wrapped up with two topics that they say don’t belong in polite conversation – religion and politics. Dan Gilgoff is the politics editor at BeliefNet and returned to the show to track how candidates are using (or not using) faith in their pitches to voters. Listen in.

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