So How Did the 'Mama Grizzlies' Do?

Three more women are elected governor - Mary Fallin, Nikki Haley and Susana Martinez make history
While Congress went backwards a step in diversity in regards to African American senators (there are now zero), the nation elected three more women as Governors: Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Nikki Haley of South Carolina, and Susana Martinez of New Mexico. Each woman is a Republican and each of their victories changed history in their state. The three new female Governors brings the total of current female U.S. Governors to seven: Jan Brewer , Ariz; Bev Perdue , N.C.; M. Jodi Rell , Conn.; C...

All Hispanic Governors soon to be Republican as well as majority of female Governors
So, they keep telling us that Republicans are the white men’s party.  Well, please tell that to Representatives-elect Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Allen West, both African-American Republicans, elected from the South. And then there’s the Republican Governors.  Brian Sandoval will soon become Nevada’s first Hispanic Governor.  This Latino will be joined in the Republican Governors’ Association by a truly wise Latina, New Mexico’s Governor-elect Susana Martinez.  

How Did Women Do in the 2010 Midterm Elections?
Ohio Assn. for Gifted Children Report This! Ohio Assn. for Gifted Children Nat’l Conf. of State Legislatures For months working up to yesterday’s Midterm Election races, headline after headline sported some version of “year of the woman” or “year of the GOP woman” or “Dem women face losses due to year of the GOP woman” or “Mama Grizzlies growl through year of the woman” or…you get the idea. So how did women do? Neither the baseli...

Keli Goff: The 5 Women Who Mattered in the Midterms
If the 1992 Election was “The Year of the Woman,” then 2010 may well be dubbed the year of the Mama Grizzly. But a look at the nationwide results from the 2010 Midterms show a much more complex picture. There were Mama Grizzlies who roared, and others who got bit and sent back into hibernation. And there were a couple of ladies who aren’t Mama Grizzlies but who still left their imprint on the electorate this year. Below, a look at the ladies who mattered in this year’s mi...

Bringing Black to the front.
Jarrett has continued serving as a crucial bridge between the President and his base of black supporters, playing a key role in the White House's more aggressive efforts to court the black blogosphere and making herself (and the president) more accessible to media outlets and organizations serving communities of color. The result? Though we're all still analyzing voter demographic data Black voters were expected to play key roles in Democratic victories in races in California and making the diff...

GOP surge carries several minority hopefuls to victory
WASHINGTON — The Republican wave produced groundbreaking results for minority Candidates, from Latina and Indian-American Governors to a pair of black congressmen from the Deep South. In New Mexico, Susana Martinez will be the nation's first Latina Governor. Nikki Haley, whose parents were born in India, will be the first woman governor in South Carolina, and Brian Sandoval will be Nevada's first Latino Governor. Insurance company owner Tim Scott will be the first black Republican Congress...

Republicans capture 11 governorships
AP Republicans captured Democratic governorships in at least 11 States on Tuesday, including some prime Presidential Battlegrounds, and hoped for even more statehouse gains. The same tide sweeping Republicans into office in Congress was leaving its Mark on Governors' mansions as well, especially in the industrial heartland. Changing hands in the Republican wave were governorships now held by Democrats in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Maine, Tennessee, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Me...

No More Mister Nice Blog
YES, PLEASE KEEP TELLING HER THIS The dreaded lamestream media has decided that Sarah Palin's status was greatly enhanced on Tuesday. CBS: Palin Emerges with Even More Clout Most of the Candidates Sarah Palin endorsed chalked up victories Tuesday. And that scorecard leaves pundits wondering whether she'll now train her sights directly on the Republican presidential nomination in 2012....

Romney, Huckabee, Palin Lead GOP Field For 2012
OK, the election’s over, and the message from most voters was that they didn’t care much for President Obama’s agenda. Now the focus is on the race for the presidency in 2012. On the Republican side, it’s a dead heat between the ex-governors - Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Sarah Palin of Alaska, according to a New Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely GOP Primary voters. Asked who they would vote for if the Republican pr...

Cheer Up, Democrats. Things Will Improve.
Via Ben Smith, this Stu Rothenberg prognostication from April 2009 is bound to live in infamy: Over the past couple of weeks, at least three Republicans — House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.), former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) and campaign consultant Tony Marsh — have raised the possibility of the GOP winning back the House of Representatives next year. That idea is lunacy and ought to be put to rest immediately. None of the three actually predicted that Republicans would gain ...

Election Results: The Good, The Bad, and The Undecided — MPP Blog
We’re still tracking down all the results from yesterday’s election, but here’s a quick look at how things fared in races affecting Marijuana policy. This year witnessed historic progress in the campaign to end Marijuana prohibition - but as some of these results below show, there remains much work ahead. MPP and others are already looking to build on this year’s advances by launching new campaigns in 2012. The only two major party Gubernatorial Candidates in the na...

Palin's 'Mama Grizzly' governors win
All three of Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies” won their gubernatorial races: Susana Martinez (R-NM), Mary Fallin (R-OK), and Nikki Haley (R-SC). These females also make history of their own — each becoming the first female Governor of their state. And, the victories by Martinez and Haley mark the first female Governors of color in the nation. Martinez is Hispanic and Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants. A record number of women (10) are their party’s nominee fo...

Palin's 'Mama Grizzly' governors win
All three of Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies” won their gubernatorial races: Susana Martinez (R-NM), Mary Fallin (R-OK), and Nikki Haley (R-SC). These females also make history of their own — each becoming the first female Governor of their state. And, the victories by Martinez and Haley mark the first female Governors of color in the nation. Martinez is Hispanic and Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants. A record number of women (10) are their party’s nominee fo...

It's the curse of the Mama Grizzly.
By Amanda Marcotte Posted Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, at 2:16 PM ET Read Slate's complete coverage of the 2010 Midterm Elections. Sharron AngleSharron Angle had all the breaks that should have allowed her to take the Senate seat in Nevada. She was running against a wildly unpopular Incumbent in a state that leads the nation in Unemployment. She raised and spent a record amount of money for a Senate race. She ran a race-baiting campaign in a style that almost always works for Republicans. She had t...

Palin celebrates Tuesday wins with web video release
Though she wasn’t on a ballot, Sarah Palin is one of the most talked-about political figures in the wake of Tuesday’s GOP wins. The chatter won’t stop today, as Palin released a web video this morning touting winning Candidates she backed. The polished video, a little over a minute long, features a Palin voiceover alongside pictures of Tea Partiers and newly elected Governors-elect Nikki Haley and Susana Martinez, Senator-elect Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Rand Paul of Ken...

Silver Election Lining: Ego-fueled Millionaire Candidates Went Down in Flames
​Those suffering the slings and arrows of Tuesday's election results should avoid the big map in the Times today showing a shower of nasty little red-colored and rightward-surging darts flowing across America. Each little arrow shows a Congressional District where the Party of No gained ground. But if the graphic makes you wince, there is some small solace found in this statistic: Tuesday night was even more painful for most of the multi-millionaire Candidates who saw their money go to w...

Biggest Election Night Losers: Self-funded Candidates - OpenSecrets Blog
Linda McMahon in Connecticut. Jeff Greene in Florida. Carly Fiorina in Califonia. Across the nation, the morning after Election Night 2010 is littered with the obliterated political dreams of really, really rich people. Of the 58 federal-level Candidates who contributed at least a half-million dollars to their own Campaigns, fewer than one in five won the seat they had sought, a Center For Responsive Politics analysis finds. It's proof that not all political money is created equal, and that eve...

Self-Financed Candidates Spent Millions, but Most Fared Poorly
How's this for a top-10 list, Dave: The top 10 Congressional Candidates who spent millions of dollars of their own Money on campaigns and still lost on Tuesday? Well, all right, two on the big-spender list -- a Senate Candidate in Wisconsin and a House hopeful in Virginia -- were elected. But eight others, ranging from former wrestling mogul Linda McMahon (a Republican who poured $46.6 million into her Connecticut Senate match) to Democrat Susan DelBene (who dropped $2.3 million on a Washington ...

Local politics are no longer only local
About 30 years ago, “Tip” O’Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House, famously declared that all politics is local. He spoke before the mass Deployment of Personal Computers and the availability of the Internet, not to mention all those little hand-held things. Today, as a result of these technologies, all politics is national. So all Candidates for the Senate and House addressed not only The Economy, Bailouts, Deficits and Health Care, but also a general malaise about the co...

Women not fooled by "Mama Grizzlies" meme
The weekend before last, I was at a conference of environmental justice Activists organized around freight transportation issues--primarily ports, rail, freeways & intermodal facilities. Children's lungs are the frontline of this battle, and there were plenty of real "Mama Grizzlies" there, the vast majority of them women of color, since, you know, they're the ones whose kids are expendable. Sarah Palin is so lame, I thought while sitting in one workshop with 15 or 20 such women participating ...

Ride The Wave, Day Two
Don’t let anyone (yes, I mean you — Obamazombies) tell you that the losses in NV and CA were the story on Tuesday night. THIS was the story on Tuesday and beyond. On November 2, 2010, the Republican Party made its largest gains in the House of Representatives since 1948 and, I have been told credibly, the largest single day gains of any political party in local, State, and federal races combined in more than 100 years. 19 state legislative bodies ultimately flipped to the GOP. Of ...

Sarah Palin: "This is Our Moment"
Sarah Palin's Political Action Committee is out with a New video, "Together," celebrating victories by the Candidates Palin supports in yesterday's Midterm Elections. The video includes shots of South Carolina Governor-elect Nikki Haley, New Hampshire senator-elect Kelly Ayotte, Florida Senator-Elect Marco Rubio, and Kentucky Senator-Elect Rand Paul and others. "I'm confident and I am hopeful because this is our movement, this is our moment, this is our morning in America," Palin can be heard...

Oklahoma gov candidate knocked for being a childfree woman
Oklahoma Governor Candidates Mary Fallin (left) and Jari AskinsThe Oklahoma Governor's race has two highly experienced female politicians squaring off against each other -- Republican Mary Fallin and Democrat Jari Askins. But at a recent debate, when asked what set her apart as a Candidate, Fallin didn't start off by talking about her experience in Congress or as Lieutenant Governor. Instead, she said, "First of all, being a mother, having Children, raising a family" -- an apparent dig at Askin...

A Look At How Women Fared
Three more females win governorships: (from left) Nikki Haley (R-SC), Susana Martinez (R-NM), and Mary Fallin (R-OK). Female Candidates across the country saw mixed results in the Midterm. There were ten females running for Governor this year. This number ties the records set in 2002 and 2006 for women Gubernatorial Candidates. Females net three governorships across the country – bringing the total to nine – with the victories of Susana Martinez (R-NM), Mary Fallin (R-OK), and Nikki ...

Nikki Haley makes history, the California girls don't. (2)
Gov.-elect Nikki HaleyIt's not a big surprise that Nikki Haley will be the new Republican Governor of South Carolina; she's led the polls for months. But it's still meaningful. Haley had a tough Primary, where she was accused of lying on her taxes and Cheating on her husband. She could have easily gone down in history as the first person to force Americans to deal with a Cheating Scandal involving a major female politician. (How French!) Instead she is the first female Indian-American Governor, ...