Five dimensional chess: inside James Talaricos extraordinary bid to break Texas Democrats losing streak

The Texan could pull off a historic victory in the Lone Star state, which hasnt elected a Democratic senator since 1988When a young, untested former school teacher stood up to address a modest gathering of local donors in Austin, the state capital of Texas, Wendy Davis felt sorry for him. Poor kid, she remembers thinking.Then James Talarico began speaking. He was like five or six sentences in and I knew that something was different about him, recalls Davis, a former Democratic state senator. He ...