PubliCola's Twitter readers are probably aware that there were a lot of questions that didn't get asked during last night's debate on "domestic issues," including women's health, gun control, gay marriage, and the climate. Here's a roundup of posts on the issues the Presidential candidates and moderator Jim Lehrer didn't touch. (See our Fizz fact check roundup here .)

Climate change.  Grist notes that although Romney and Obama tripped over each other to say they supported oil drilling and "new sources of energy," neither man had any specific proposals, and neither talked about the looming climate catastrophe. (Grist also fact-checks Romney's claims about Obama's energy policies.) ThinkProgress adds: "Even with160,000 signatures  delivered to PBS’ Jim Lehrer calling on him to ask the candidates about climate change, the issue was completely ignored during the 90 minute conversation — continuing a long streak of silence throughout the campaign."

Women's health. Women could decide this election. So it was a little stunning that in a 90-minute policy debate that included a long discussion of health care, Obama didn't bother to bring up his opponent's odious positions on women's reproductive freedom, including his promise to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood. The Huffington Post is just one of many blogs to point this out.

Transportation, including transit. The Hill points out that neither candidate talked about transportation policy, and touched only briefly on the $80 billion auto-industry bailout, which Obama said brought the auto industry "roaring back." Obama's lack of engagement on the transportation issue was especially surprising, The Hill says, given the unpopularity of Romney's statement that he would "let Detroit go bankrupt." Transit nonmotorized transportation infrastructure, needless to say, was completely absent from the debate.

The housing crisis.  Neither candidate wanted to go near the housing crisis, notes the Washington Post. The closest either candidate came to acknowledging the foreclosure crisis that  created the economic crisis that dominated the entire debate was Obama's claim that "housing has begun to rise." While that may be true, the Post  writes, "despite expanded government refinancing programs, many homeowners are still struggling with payments and remain at risk of losing their homes."

The 47 percent. Obama steered clear of a subject many pundits were sure he'd bring up---Romney's videotaped dismissal of 47 percent of the population as freeloaders who "will never take responsibility for their lives." Mother Jones , which unearthed and published the video in the first place, thinks Obama avoided the 47 percent comments, as well as Romney's time at Bain Capital, because he didn't want to be seen as attacking Romney personally in the first debate. Pandagon disagrees, saying that forcing Romney to deny his 47 percent statement "would have been the swiftest way" to demonstrate that Romney was lying throughout the debate.

Romney's taxes. Romney claims he paid an average effective tax rate of 14 percent over the last several years, although he's refused to release his tax returns. Given that even Romney acknowledges he pays lower taxes than many middle-class Americans, The New Yorker asks, "Where was Warren Buffet’s secretary? Where were Romney’s tax returns, or his tax rates? Tax fairness came up, but they didn’t (nor did Bain), and Obama did not really control that line of argument.

Also: Shakespeare's Sister has a good list of the other important domestic issues the debate avoided, including: Gay marriage, LGBT issues, food prices,  science funding, homelessness, hunger, immigration, bankruptcies, equal  pay, and the Violence Against Women Act.