Why Talarico Still Might Lose: Can He Nail Down the Black Vote?

When James Talarico, the 37-year-old Texas representative and Presbyterian seminarian, won the Democratic Party’s Senate nomination seven months ago, few believed he would win the general election in November. For one thing, Texas has not elected a Democrat to statewide office in nearly 30 years. There was also little to suggest that Talarico’s…