A conservative Texas strategist is warning about how Republicans failed, leading to a major upset victory for a Democrat on Saturday in state Senate District, which had been held by the GOP for decades. "At the end of the day, the explanation for happened last night was NOT that Democrats won TX SD-9 because of increased Dem enthusiasm. Rather, it was that Republicans LOST it because of the failure to persuade swing Republicans and right-leaning independents," Ross Hunt, the principal of Texas-