This is a tale of two women politicians.

One is a Republican running in “blue” New York. Her name is Elise Stefanik, a Harvard alum who served in the Bush White House and now works for her family’s upstate plywood business.

If elected — and the latest poll has her 8 points up — the 30-year-old will make history as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

The other is Democrat Wendy Davis.

Davis too boasts a Harvard degree, from the law school. Back in June 2013, she was heralded as the voice of American women when she tried — and failed — to stop her fellow Texas legislators from passing a law restricting abortion after 20 weeks. Now she’s running for governor, where the latest poll has her down 13 points.

Guess who’s the national sensation?

Davis became arguably America’s best-known female politician outside Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin mostly because the press corps found her personal story made to order: a divorced, trailer-park, teenage single mom who got herself through Harvard Law and was making a stand for women in the heart of redneck Texas.

In short order her pink Mizuno running shoes became iconic. A piece in Vogue spoke of her “Barbie-doll looks” and suggested she might be the one to turn red-state Texas purple. Maria Shriver obliged with a fawning profile for NBC. And so on.

Meanwhile there’s Stefanik. Though her principles aren’t surprising for a Republican — she favors lower taxes, less regulation and a foreign policy rooted in American strength — her real appeal has been her ability to connect her principles to the concerns of ordinary voters.

Take ObamaCare. Certainly she’s for repeal. But when Stefanik speaks of it, she notes how her family’s business first saw their employee plan canceled because of ObamaCare — and then got hit with a 30 percent hike in premiums. That resonates with many farmers and small businesses in her struggling upstate district.

She’s also stymied efforts to run the standard Democratic playbook against her. On abortion, for example, she doesn’t hide from the issue — she says forthrightly she’s prolife with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother — but it was left to her male opponent to try to make the race a culture war.

And remember how Mitt Romney elevated “Cayman Islands” into a campaign issue when he refused to release his tax returns? In her race, Stefanik turned the tables by releasing her full returns and highlighting the refusal of her wealthy Democratic opponent to do the same.

Yet the Stefanik story has been all but ignored outside of local and conservative media because she doesn’t fit the preferred profile: a socially liberal Democrat, preferably with a dovish foreign policy.

She’s far from alone here, given the large supply of accomplished Republican women running this year — mostly against men.

There’s Jodi Ernst, a colonel in the National Guard who served in Iraq and is up slightly in a very tight Senate race in Iowa.

Or Mia Love, a black Mormon running for Congress in Utah, who is up by 9 points.

Or Barbara Comstock, an attractive, unabashed conservative and working mom who leads in her highly watched Virginia race for an open House seat.

Or Marilinda Garcia, a young, Harvard-educated, conservative Latina who is slightly behind Democrat Ann Kuster in their New Hampshire House race.

True, some of the gloss has come off Wendy Davis since folks learned how many parts of her personal story were more fairy tale than fact.

One example: She didn’t quite put herself through Harvard. Her then-husband did, cashing in his 401(k) to help pay the tuition and raising their two daughters when she went off to Cambridge.

Nor has Davis helped with recent missteps. Recently she ran an attack ad on rival Greg Abbott featuring an empty wheelchair. She followed by questioning whether Abbott would support a ban on interracial marriage.

Two problems here.

First, the man she’s attacking hasn’t been able to walk since a falling oak crushed his spine and damaged his kidneys back in 1984. Second, not only is his bride the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, if he wins — almost certain now — Cecilia Abbott will become Texas first Latina first lady.

Meanwhile, a Stefanik victory on Nov. 4 would do more than make history because of her age. It would also up-end the dogma that a pro-life woman can’t win in the blue Northeast — and put an attractive, young public face on the GOP future.

But even if she does win, there will be no glowing Vogue profiles, no Maria Shriver puff pieces and no cute little features about her sneakers.

For under the narrow orthodoxies that define who becomes a media darling, Elise Stefanik can’t even be a woman because she’s a Republican.