Blue states with glass ceilings

[Mr. Smith]

How many women run for governor, though? As far as I know, the only serious candidate for governor of California got the Democratic nomination in 1994, and so the fact that Jerry Brown's sister didn't become governor probably had more to do with it being the wrong year than anything else. The incumbent Republican Wilson was easily re-elected in a Republican year. The last time a Republican incumbent governor lost was 1938.

Meg Whitman (2010) and Dianne Feinstein (1990),...some Californian you turned out to be, can't remember why we have one of our Senators and someone who audaciously spent $116 million and the big nanny scandal....c'mon this is embarrassing.



Anyway, I've compiled a map of all 27 states that have had one women in the Governor's Mansion.  7 of these were Republican only, 17 of these were Democratic only, 3 were both.

Now for states that have had women in the Senate

16 Democratic only, 9 Republican Only, 2 Republican and Democratic

[Mr. Smith]

Now for to compile this into a map of states that have had female governors AND senators, those with just one (governor only in blue, senator only in green) of the positions, and those  haven't yet elected a woman to either position.

As this map notes, that's 13 states that have had both (and at the real progressive extreme NH has had both women of both parties in both positions!), 15 have only had female senators,  13 have only had female governors, and the remaining 9 have kept it "a boy's club".

Of these 9, only Pennsylvania can be considered "blue", the others are swing (including the reliable "bellwethers" Nevada and Ohio, and recent swingers Virginia and Colorado) or  deep Atlas BLUE (Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, Idaho).

[Mr. Smith]

Hasn't stop New Hampshire from having women on both sides of the aisle in both positions.

Hasn't stopped Arizona from electing 3 governors

Pretty embarrassing when the state of Goldwater can do better than the state of Harvey Milk.