Also, she loves Mom and apple pie

As she launches her run for Alabama governor in 2006, Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley wants everyone who reads The Tuscaloosa News to know that she's "prepared [her]self to be qualified for the job." And that she's been both a "single mother" and a "successful Realtor." And, because it can't be emphasized enough, that she once was "a poor little country girl growing up on the farm."

For what it's worth, a political science professor says Baxley, who would be the state's first female governor who wasn't a stand-in for George Wallace, likely would receive strong electoral support from women. Part of political science professors' job description is to be quoted saying things you know intuitively.