Because they're all political trailblazers and the press loves that kind of story.
The first Asian governor of a southern state, it's youngest governor who led his state back from a catastrophic disaster.
Governor of our second largest state who overcame a freak paralyzing accident to be the second wheelchair governor after FDR.
A man who was literally living on the streets from age 11 to age 13 becomes governor of his state.
The first Latina governor in the nation.
One of the first Latino governors in the nation who just won reelection with 70 percent of the vote in a purple state.
The first black senator elected from the south since reconstruction.
An ex CIA spy and African American representing a majority Latino district.
The nation's youngest congresswoman ever.
The daughter of Haitian refugees becomes the first Haitian American to be elected to Congress from one of the whitest districts in the country.
The first Cuban American and one of the first Latinos to be elected to the Senate
The second son of Cuban refugees to be elected to the Senate.
The first woman of Asian descent to be governor in the nation.
Her state's first female senator and the nation's first war veteran female senator.
Son of Cuban political prisoner becomes first Lation congressman from his state.
A second state's first female senator.
And then there were the two openly gay men that came within a cat's whisker of winning house seats only to be derailed in part by last minute sexual allegations.
Of course you haven't heard of most of these people because they're all from the old, white, bigoted, sexist, homophobic Republican party. You see the secret to Republican success is narrowness and racial exclusivity how else could they have ended up controlling 70 of 99 legislative chambers (NE is non partisan but it's conservative non partisan) and 31 or 32 (Alaska may end up with a Sarah Palin supported independent governor - God she's such a Republican Barbie - a regular political Stepford Wife) of the 50 governors including those of the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th largest states.
Dismissing conservatives as white cracker racists appears to be a risky strategy borne of outdated stereotypes and willful ignorance. Here's to having it bite the proggos in the ass even harder and deeper.
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