0 you have to tell a good story, and if that story is the center of your campaign, you had better hope that it stands up to close scrutiny. case in point. texas state senator wendy davis, whose gubernatorial campaign suffered its first serious blow this past week. the dallas morning news published an article raising questions about some of the details of davis compelling life story. now, her story goes like this. a single mother, 19, divorced and living in a trailer, went to community college and eventually on to harvard law school. and later, the texas state senate. the story paints her as a success, a kind of hard-fought, her humbled beginnings, something that could connect her to voters in texas, especially women. here she is sharing that story with nbc s maria shriver for the today show. reporter: by 19, she was getting divorced and living in a mobile home park. you haven t been back here since you lived here. that s right. reporter: when you look at this place, what are
a majority of seats there including senate majority leader harry reid whom we heard from in our last hour. sharon angle congratulated him earlier on the win. in the gubernatorial races it looks like republican governors have won control of a majority of state. huge wins. they had 10 governorships from democrats. ohio and pennsylvania among them. huge gains, historic gains. we haven t seen something like this since the mid1940s. it could be before all is said and done, a gain for republicans. what happened to democrats? let s just show you one race, one house race. here is a map of the u.s. house of representatives. all of the yellow the races to watch, let s just pick pennsylvania. in particular let s pick district number 11 which is the scranton, most of the poconos. the democrat has held that particular seat since 1985. he has been a fixture on capitol hill. in fact, dating back to 15 years of age he was a house page, believe did or not. believe it or not. he was chal