On Super Tuesday, the descendants of those Mexicanos voted for Hillary - big time - and kept her head above the Obama wave. Barack Obama took 13 states on Super Tuesday compared to Clinton’s eight, but one of those eight was California. Had Hill lost California, it would have been adios to Bill and Hill’s excellent adventure to give America a second Clinton presidency.

Billary in good part owes its political survival to the astonishing Latino support that Clinton Inc., garnered in California. Billary took 69 percent of the Latino vote in Kali-for-nay, as Gov. Arnold would say, with Barack managing to get a puny 29 percent. Good try Oprah in making a splashy campaign stop for your man Barack on the eve of the Calfornia primary, pero, not even the mighty Oprah can shake Mexican-Americans from the Clintons.

Bad news for the Clintons: The next series of primaries and caucuses in February, (Virginia, Maryland, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Washington state), are places where not many Latinos live, so Hillary will have to look elsewhere to see who can bail her out. With that in mind, the Clintonistas need Texas in a major way when our state’s primary rolls around on March 4. Good news there, of course, for Hill and Bill since we have lots of Mexicans in these parts, with Hispanics making up roughly 25 percent of the Democratic primary electorate.

And there’s no doubt Lone Star Mex-Americans will be there for Hillary. It’s just a matter of how big they’ll back her up. In California, they went ga-ga for Hill. Nearly 30 percent of the California Demo electorate on Super Tuesday was made up of Latinos. In the 2004 Demo primary, California Latinos made up only 16 percent of the state’s Demo electorate.

You think Tejano Dems won’t turn out in droves to save their girl Hill from Barack? Are you kidding? Of course, they will. Mex-Americans in Texas love the Clintons, especially Bill. I’m not sure why there’s such a depth of amor for Bill and Hill, but it’s there, so no use trying to fight it, not even Oprah and her book club could put a dent in this love affair.

So, is it only admiration for the Clintons that explains the ties between Mex-Americans and Billary, or is there something to the theory that some Mex-Americans just can’t bring themselves to vote for a major presidential candidate who happens to be African-American? I think it’s both, more of the first, but some of the later. Sad but true, boys and girls, in putting it like it is.

So get ready, Rio Grande Valley, here comes the Clintons. They need you with Barack closing in on putting an end to their dream of a Clinton Restoration. As Hillary put it at a California rally, “Si se pueda.”

OK, she needs to work on her Spanish, but that’s fine. Hill is our girl. Winter, spring, summer or fall, Hillary, when you call, we’ll come running. You’ve got a friend, oh yes you do, as you’ll find out on March 4.   

- Joaquin Tijerina, Chisme Blogger