Everything is bigger in Texas -- including the Senate stakes

Everything is bigger in Texas -- including the Senate stakes
Everything is bigger in Texas -- including the Senate stakes

The race for control of the U.S.

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 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 b…