FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: "Maybe Democrats should take Rick Perry up on his idea that Texas should secede from the Union."


Consider:



-- If Texas were not in the Union, the Democrats would currently have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate -- or at least they would once Al Franken gets seated. This is because, in a 98-seat Senate, only 59 votes would be required to break a filibuster.