Cynthia Nixon's loss in a longshot bid for New York governor makes one trend increasingly clear: the "pink wave" is not coming to the shores of governors' mansions around the country as strong as it is likely heading to Congress.
The odds were particularly stacked against Nixon, who challenged the well-established Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his bid for a third-term nomination, but the obstacles between women and electoral success as governors are real.
There are a record of female gubernatorial nominees this cycle. According to Center for Women and American Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers, 61 women -- 41 Democrats and 20 Republicans -- filed to run in 2018. The previous record was 34 women who filed to run in 1994.
Only 16 of the 61 have won their primaries -- 12 Democrats and four Republicans. That's a success rate of just 26% -- less than half the rate of their congressional counterparts, where almost 49% of female House candidates have won their primaries and exactly half of the 42% of female Senate candidates who won their primaries.
