2 Democrats vie to become Georgia's first woman governor

ATLANTA (AP) — One spent much of her childhood in trailers, raised by her mother, college made possible partly by a lottery scholarship and other grants. The other grew up in a working-class, African-American household in the Deep South, her path to law school also paved with financial aid.

Now, 40-year-old Stacey Evans and 44-year-old Stacey Abrams, both Atlanta-area attorneys and erstwhile legislative colleagues, want to bolster those boot-strap biographies with the Democratic nomination for Georgia governor. Either would be the first woman to claim that distinction and, if victorious in November, the first to serve as chief executive. Abrams would be the first black female governor in any American capital.