The Texas-Ohio juggling continues through Tuesday, when the presidential candidates will ditch those states like last year's prom date. Until then, we're one of the hotties at this dance, and you can tell from the schedules. Lookit:
• Hillary Clinton will be in Texas through the last weekend, hitting Houston on Thursday, San Antonio and Waco on Friday and then headlining rallies in Fort Worth and Dallas. After a Sunday in Ohio, she'll be back in Austin on Monday for a "Texas-sized town hall" broadcast on the Internet and on TV in eight Texas markets.
Bill Clinton knocked around the state — in Austin, Fort Worth, Grapevine, Dallas, and Houston — while the candidate was in Ohio. And he will be the Texas closer, making the rounds on Sunday in Houston, Beaumont, Marshall, Wichita Falls, Abilene, and College Station, and then on Monday — Election Eve — in Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Edinburg, Laredo, Eagle Pass, Del Rio and El Paso.
And Chelsea Clinton hit campuses for her mom with rallies at Texas State University in San Marcos and Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
• Barack Obama did a town hall meeting Thursday morning at the Austin Convention Center, testing how big a crowd you can draw when everybody's supposed to be at work. He also had stops planned in Beaumont, San Marcos, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, and Duncanville. And while they haven't provided any details, his campaign says he'll be in Texas on March 4 to watch the results come in.
Michelle Obama made her first Texas foray this week with stops in Beaumont, Galveston, and Houston.
Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus — anybody in Texas know this guy? — came in for a Dallas-East Texas swing this week. He was scheduled to make stops in Texarkana, Longview, and Tyler. After that: College Station, Waco, Killeen, and Abilene. How about Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty? Heard of him? He knocked on doors in Houston for Obama.
Comedian George Lopez is the latest Obama agent to hit South Texas, making appearances in El Paso, McAllen, and Harlingen on Wednesday and Thursday. Actor Samuel L. Jackson campaigned in Longview, Tyler, and Texarkana, and actors Ben McKenzie and Kerry Washington hit college campuses in Georgetown and Austin. Actors Sophia Bush and Adam Rodriguez rallied on campuses in Richardson and Dallas.
U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, who lost to George W. Bush in 2004, hit Dallas, Galveston, Brownsville and Del Rio for Obama. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, made Obama stops in Austin, San Antonio, Brownsville, and Harlingen.
Former Texas Gov. Mark White endorsed Obama.
• U.S. Sen. John McCain is making Texas stops in the less-competitive Republican primary. He's appearing at Rice University in Houston on Thursday in an event that'll be webcast live and then archived for those who miss the live version. He's already been to San Antonio and will cover Dallas, Round Rock, and Austin by the end of the week, raising money and speechifying. Monday evening, he'll be in Waco for a town hall meeting.
• And Mike Huckabee, traveling with TV celeb Chuck Norris, will make a stop in Waco this week, and then appears at the Reagan Day Celebration in Houston on Friday night.