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In “James Talarico has an obligation to win. Ken Paxton is a terrible candidate, but don’t take anything for granted,” Matthew Yglesias writes at slowboring.com: “Ken Paxton defeated incumbent John Cornyn last week to become the G.O.P. nominee for a Texas U.S. Senate seat…This was one of those races where I wasn’t sure which outcome I was hoping for. Operatives at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Senate Majority PAC could hardly contain their enthusiasm for the Paxton win sinc...