. >> reporter: tammy nelson was stuck in a nightmare. financially dependent on her abusive husband and already raising one son, rider. >> i remember one time, feeding my son the dust out of the rice krispie box. the last bowl of cereal we had and i didn't know where the next meal was going to come from. >> reporter: but her nightmare got worse when she says her husband forced her to get pregnant again. >> you hate yourself a lot for it, because you feel like you should just have a connection with something that's naturally inside you. i felt guilty that i never had that connection. >> reporter: for tammy, abortion wasn't an option. giving up the child was the right and only thing to do. >> what do you think? >> ten fingers, ten toes. >> reporter: what was it like the first time you went and saw ben? >> she wanted me in the room while he was born, so, they put him right in my arms, so -- >> reporter: what was that like? >> amazing. >> reporter: two years have passed. tammy started rebuilding her life with a new partner, now fiance patrick

sherrod brown, tammy baldwin, debbie stabenow, bob casey, tim kaine, bill nelson.ending on florida, a democratic sweep of the presidency, and definitely a democratic sweep of the senate races. in those states that the gop was so excited to have supposedly turned red in a way that was going to stick. last night, democratic women swept every major office in new hampshire. last night, california democrats wanted democratic super majority in the state house and in the state senate. not just majorities in california, but super majorities. wherein, if the republicans don't turn up, any of them, any day at work, nothing will be different in california. they're completely legislatively irrelevant. alan west lost a seat. more women got elected to the u.s. senate than at any time in u.s. history. the republican presidential nominee and vice presidential nominee both lost their home states. missouri and montana and west virginia chose democratic governors. west virginia chose its first gay state legislature. so did north dakota. west virginia and north dakota? yeah, seriously

bill nelson in florida, tammy baldwin, and brown and others all ran on the health care plan. [ inaudible >> stephanie: the supreme court has upheld it the american people have upheld it move on. >> the democrats wanted a public option, y'all got the same exactly program you put up against hilary care. >> stephanie: exactly. >> -- republican plan is law of the land. >> stephanie: and by the way it is their duty to strengthen it. >> uh-huh. shaving $120 billion off of the deficit. >> stephanie: these weren't done overnight, and that's what we can do with health care. and now we have the electoral capacity to make it stronger rather than -- >> that's going to bring in thousands of new patients for insurance companies. everybody wins on this. >> stephanie: forty-five minutes after the hour. back with fridays with fugelsang on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: if you turn her on, she'll turn you on. >> oh god. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm bringing sexy back -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ don't know how to act ♪ >> stephanie: uh-huh. uh-huh. it is

with her victory and the departure of democrats like ben nelson and joe lieberman senate democrats moved to the left also in wisconsin democrat tammy baldwin knocked off tommy thompson in their historic senate race which marks the first time an openly gay candidate has been elected to the united states senate we saw voters in colorado and washington state approved ballot measures to legalize tax and regulate marijuana for recreational use and this is the first time since pot was criminalized about one hundred years ago that a state has completely decriminalized marijuana and on tuesday two states did massachusetts voters also voted to legalize medical marijuana marriage equality scored historic victories on tuesday night as well voters in maine maryland and washington state approved ballot measures to legalize same sex marriage marking the first time in history of marriage a quote in the history of marriage equality that equality was voted into law through direct democracy and in minnesota voters were able to beat back an attempt to rewrite the state's constitution to define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman so it was

tammy baldwin was elected last night. >> bill: in wisconsin. >> in wisconsin. in virginia, tim cain over george allen. >> bill: big win. >> bill nelsonflorida. >> bill: connie mack. >> just demolished him. joe donnelly over richard mourdoch. claire mccaskill over todd akin. in nevada right now they called it just a little while ago that the republican dean holland did call that seat. >> bill: jon tester leading in montana and heidi hidecamp leading. that would be a pick up, north dakota would be holding on to the seat and jon tester would be reelect the. so a great night in the senate 53 to the republicans 45, democrats could get up to 55 if those two go the other way. they look like they're going to go and then house of representatives not such a good night for democrats in the house. the margin stays about where it was last time around, 108 it's now at 186 democrats, 231 republicans, but there were some important victories there. allen for democrats allen west, the nuttiest of all members of congress, which is really saying something, was defeated in florida. >> yes. >> bill: michele bachmann, almost, almost lost, oh, man we came c

tammy baldwin defeated former governor tommy thompson, 51% to 46%. the lone pickup was in nebraska where deb fischer defeated bob kerrey to grab a seat vacated by retiring democrat ben nelsons take a look at where things stand. two uncalled races here. this is for an open seat in north dakota would be if heidi . we have not called it. let me run through both of those just to show you the raw vote totals where we are now 0. there's still a lot of vote to count here. leads by 17,000 votes. that is everything that seems to be out. a lot of folks believe that will hold. i have a feeling this will take a little while longer. congressman rick bird only trailing by 994 votes. that's pretty good math for lack of sleep. democrats may pick up anywhere at least as many as eight seats. there it went. whoop. th camera wept down. hey look, better that it went down today than before. it looks like we have -- it's going to be as many as a net gain of eight seats, at worst four seats. joining me now is the man in charge of trying to pick up house seats. it was a tough night for house democrats when you consider everything else on the board. congressman israel, how democrats did in the sena

nelson. here's fischer talking to her supporters. >> i will wit and integrity.g to build a better america. >> and to cap off what was truly a big n for forratic congresswoman tammy defeated former republican governor tommy thompson. in her victory speech baldwin ahead. inúqsconsin's day. but i also believe t we cane forward together. >> and we bring back our entire panel. joining us into this so jimmy, let's observations, the big w from tonight. what strikes you the most? >> first openly gay woman in the united states senate in the history of the united states senate, in the history of the country. big deal. first time a black man was woman was elected to the ty is just as big. and it should be. not because she defeated tommy thompson former governor because she's openly the first black president. the first gay senator. it's big. and it's a great thing becausehey should awisconsin. i think the elizabeth warren seat is a really big deal too, for a couple of reasons. scott brown was a sitting senator. he'd done pretty much everything like he needed to except made a couple of bad first one on alina kagan. he voted against the pr nominee. he voted against a woman f

tammy balded win in wisconsin, the congresswoman there potentially winning senate race there. he also called bob kerry who lost the race in nebraska. joe donnelly who won the race in indiana. bill nelson, one of the first senators we called who hadn't won reelection in florida. bob case nepennsylvania. by the way, it's important to point out when vice president biden voted today he was actually asked we the pool reporters traveling with him, "is this your last time you'll be on the ballot?" and he grind and said, "i don't think so." >> ifill: how old will he be four years from now? where is mark. >> it's obviously very early to talk about anything beyond this but you will start to hear people talking about anything beyond 2012, and particularly with the president winning a second term. what does it mean for cabinet changes. what does secretary of defense hillary clinton do, does she look at future bid? there are lots of things we can begin talking about. >> woodruff: and we look at the divided government, and the idea the president for the great, whatever victory he apparently is pulling off tonight, he's going to face a congress that is every bit as divide as it was-- i'm trying to f