NH Ladies in the House (and Senate) Inspire

I didn't see this when it aired, but on April 27 NBC's Today Show ran a short piece called "History in the Making," on New Hampshire's All-Women Delegation.

They all have experienced "mom guilt," and all credit the motherhood experience as helping them learn how to "get things done," reports NBC Washington Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell. 

But the fact that New Hampshire is first in the nationt to elect all women to it's top five political positions  – Gov. Maggie Hassan, Senators Kelly Ayotte (R) and Jeanne Shaheen (D), and Democrat U.S. Reps. Carol Shea Porter and Annie Kuster –  may have more to do with the way politics is woven into the fabric of life here.

"Politics is our state sport," said Shea-Porter in the short Today Show clip.

Notably, New Hampshire is also the first state in the U.S. to produce a woman who has served as both governor and senator in Jeanne Shaheen.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte credited a supportive husband, which makes her regular commute to Washington, D.C. possible with two young kids at home, ages 5 and 8, and said a dad stopped her recently to tell her how inspired his daughter was by New Hampshire's female delegation.

The report also noted that 26 states have yet to elect a woman to the senate, and five have not yet had a female in Congress. 

You can watch the clip here.