这位得克萨斯人可能在孤星州取得历史性胜利，该州自1988年以来从未选出过民主党参议员。当一位年轻、未经考验的前学校教师站起来，在得克萨斯州首府奥斯汀向一小群当地捐赠者发表讲话时，温迪·戴维斯为他感到难过。“可怜的孩子，”她回忆当时的想法说。
The Texan could pull off a historic victory in the Lone Star state, which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1988 When a young, untested former school teacher stood up to address a modest gathering of local donors in Austin, the state capital of Texas, Wendy Davis felt sorry for him. “Poor kid,” she remembers thinking.
随后詹姆斯·塔拉里科开始讲话。“他才说了五六句话，我就知道他有些与众不同，”前民主党州参议员戴维斯回忆道。“他当时和现在一样口才出众、独一无二。从那天起，我开始叫他‘小奥巴马’。”
Then James Talarico began speaking. “He was like five or six sentences in and I knew that something was different about him,” recalls Davis, a former Democratic state senator. “He was as articulate and unique then as he is now. From that day, I started calling him ‘Baby Obama’.”
