Only two African-Americans (Virginia's Doug Wilder, Massachusetts's Deval Patrick) have ever been elected governor of a state. There are already two black nominees this year, Maryland's Ben Jealous and Georgia's Stacey Abrams, both Democrats. But both of them are underdogs in the general election, because of dynamics that have little to do with them (Georgia is a red state, Jealous is facing incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan, one of the most popular governors in the country). In Wisconsin, another black gubernatorial hopeful, Mahlon Mitchell, would probably have had a better chance to win the general election than Abrams or Jealous, because Wisconsin is a swing state and Republican Gov. Scott Walker is fairly unpopular. But Mitchell lost to fellow Democrat Tony Evers in the gubernatorial primary.