Dallas' repuke rag is playing up the Hispanic/AA race card game in TX:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/021008dnpolhispvote.3a7ea5e.html In more than 30 years of political organizing in South Texas, and with four trips in the past 16 months, the Clintons could write chapter and verse about the Rio Grande Valley.
Barack Obama, who has never been south of San Antonio, is just opening the cover. And that very fact could help determine the outcome of Texas' March 4 primary fight between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama.
Complicating Mr. Obama's task is
long-standing political competition among black and Hispanic political leaders that may make it tougher for a black candidate to win Hispanic voters. Illustrating that tension, last week, Jesse Diaz – president of the Dallas-area League of United Latin American Citizens –
suggested on a Dallas blog that Latinos will respond to Mr. Obama with the same "distaste" that some black leaders in Dallas have shown toward Hispanics. <snip>
"If you look at polling on how warm or cold Latinos feel toward a certain person or concept, Bill Clinton ranks ahead of the Catholic Church," Mr. Anchía said.