Everything is bigger in Texas -- including the Senate stakes
The race for control of the Senate next January is a dead heat. Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive. And they might. But it's possible that the fate of the chamber known as the "world's greatest deliberative body" will come down to a state not usually considered all that swingy: Texas. Everything is always bigger in Texas, and that now includes the stakes for control of the Senate. For over a decade, Democrats have touted the purported inevitability of Texas turning blue. "Demographics is ...
