Clinton's Texas Two-Step

From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

McALLEN, TEX. -- Hillary Clinton will campaign heavily throughout Texas today with several stops along the Mexican border. Clinton’s first rally takes place just 8 miles from Mexico and is clearly an attempt by the campaign to continue to woo Hispanic voters, one of the voting groups that has consistently backed her throughout the primaries so far.

Last night, Clinton was greeted by 12,000 students and supporters to a rock star welcome at the University of Texas at El Paso. While Barack Obama regularly packs arenas and large venues, she hasn't seen a crowd that large at one of her campaign events Clinton visited Oakland, California last year, where more than 10,000 people greeted her.

But it was no surprise that the campaign had set up such an event on the same day Clinton lost her 8th contest in a row to Obama. The image the campaign attempted to portray was not of a woman whose campaign seems to be faltering but, rather, the cheers and confetti would appear to anyone watching as though she were the candidate to beat at this point.

Clinton remains tied in national polls with Obama, but it seems her momentum has come to a screeching halt since losing several contests to him. For Clinton, the news potentially gets worse as the next three contests seem to favor Obama.

Despite the gloomy predictions for the next few weeks, she is planning on spending several days in Wisconsin, which votes next Tuesday. When asked if there were internal figures that show Clinton to have a fighting chance in Wisconsin or whether her campaigning there was an attempt to stay competitive in the infamous delegate race, a campaign source said “it was more like the latter.”

All eyes remain fixed on Texas and Ohio, which vote on March 4, and could turn out to be her last stand. As one campaign source characterized the Texas race: It “is the big one.”