Blue states with glass ceilings

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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.

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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

Oops, I guess Fieinstein was a long time ago, and Whitman is kind of forgettable.

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Massachusetts's sexism is well-documented.

Excellent point.

It was explainable with the U.S. Senate: Ted Kennedy had 47 years and John Kerry had 29 years. So approximately 76 years combined with their representing Massachusetts with U.S. Senate seats. (This was prior to Elizabeth Warren, having unseated Scott Brown, in 2012.)

The governorship, though, is inexcusable. For Texas to have had at least one woman rep at the governorship level while Massachusetts has not hones in on either the Democrats in the state of Massachusetts sucking...or they're not nominating women for the governorships in midterm election years the party will win. No matter what it is, it certainly isn't inspired. And it shouldn't be tolerated for much longer. Next time the Democrats win the governorship of Massachusetts, there is no reason it cannot get done with a woman.

She wasn't elected governor, but there was Jane Swift.