The dominoes have fallen in quick succession and delivered a seismic result for the Democrats that is on par with the party\u2019s sweeping victory in 2006 during the second term of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While everyone expected the Democrats to win the House of Representatives, it was a much bigger task to take control of the Senate, requiring victories in states that have let them down before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not this time. They say things are bigger in Texas<\/a>, and nowhere was the \u201cblue wave\u201d bigger than in James Talarico\u2019s win over Republican Ken Paxton<\/a> in the Lonestar State \u2013 which, as of now, is a purple (swing) state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But then there\u2019s Kansas, a state that had not sent a Democrat to the Senate in 94 years. Tonight, it elected pastor Adam Hamilton. The farming state of Iowa was emphatic too in its decision to elect Josh Turek, flipping the seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They say things are bigger in Texas, and nowhere was the \u201cblue wave\u201d bigger than in James Talarico\u2019s win over Republican Ken Paxton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":22567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7862,8493],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-590773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-donald-trump","category-election","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t