I am working as a volunteer here in Brownsville, Texas in preparation for Tuesday's 'primacaucus.' The newspaper reports characterize this as 'Hillary country,' but the perspective on the ground is rather different. In comparison to both New Hampshire and New York, both won by Clinton, I am seeing a lot more pro-Obama enthusiasm and far, far less active support for HRC around the area.
While the campaign here has shown growing pains regarding efficient use of volunteers (e.g. wrong 'walklists,' no advance assignments) there is a very good level of enthusiasm and a good number of paid staff working very hard (possibly too hard; when people are working on 2 hours of sleep a night for weeks, they can't be operating on maximal efficiency).
The general scheme has been to leverage some very popular local events which happen to be coincident with the leadup to the primacaucus. Sombrero Fest is a private carnival-type event which, although banning all political activity (including the wearing of campaign T-shirts!) has been used by the campaign to leaflet outside to the thousands of people while they leave. Charro Days is comprised of a series of parades and other events which the Obama campaign participated in with a float, and there were many other Obama staff leafleting and electioneering to the hordes of spectators. Senator Obama himself made a quick appearance after speaking with Hispanic evangelists on Friday afternoon. He got a tremendous reception by all accounts except those that appeared in the local pro-Hillary rag (headline: "Obama Crashes Sombrero Fest").
I'm feeling pretty good about things here. This is perhaps the most heavily Hispanic county in the state, and if there was anywhere you'd think Obama would have no chance at all it would be here. While we may not win the district, if I were working in the Clinton campaign in Texas I would be rather depressed at the prospect of not winning as big here as they need to if they hope to carry the state.