Feature, Feb 22 - Eleven days before Texans, and voters in three other states head to the polls, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton participated in a CNN and Univision debate in Austin.

The very first question from the Univision anchor was on Cuba. Here they showed a slight policy difference.

Senator Obama said he would meet with Cuba's new leader Raul Castro with out pre-conditions.

"One other thing I've said as a show of good faith that we're interesting in perusing, potentially, a new relationship is that what I've called for is a loosening of the restrictions on remittances on family members to the people of Cuba as well as travel restrictions for family members who want to visit their family members in cuba. I think that imitating that change in policy as tart then suggestion an agenda gets set up would be useful but I would not normalize relations until we starting seeing some progress."

Obama did favor an immediate return to normalized relations with Cuba in the past.

Here's Clinton:

"I would not meet with him until there is evidence change is happening because I think it's important that they demonstrate clearly that they are committed to change the direction."

Sanho Tree, Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies provides some insight.

"There wasn't that much new ground covered which is unfortunate. I am glad Senator Obama mentioned Latin America

"Our entire foreign aid to Latin America is 2.7 billion dollars, approximately what we spend in Iraq in a week. Is it any surprise that you've seen Hugo Chzes and countries like China move into the void because we've been neglectful.

And on Afghanistan: Iraq "has diverted attention from Afghanistan where Al Qaeda that killed 3000 Americans are stronger now than anytime during 2001," Obama says.

Again Sanho Tree:

"Why wasn't there more discussion of that? In Afghanistan we're loosing ground in a very drastic way. Half the county is no longer safe for international aid workers to travel in."

Sanho Tree also says the debates ignored many crucial foreign policy points.

"There's a lot going on in Africa, the creation of AFRICOM, Bush's trip there. There's all these other issues that didn't get mentioned which is very unfortunate."

As for Iraq, the candidates debated their points. Obama maintains that he had the right judgment from the beginning to oppose the war. Clinton says she'll bring troops out with in 60 days. Again, she gives no plan beyond those 60 days.

Health care, still a key platform for both candidates.

"When I proposed universal health care plan, as did Senator Edwards, we took a big risk because we know it's controversial to say we're going to cover everyone. And you chose not to do that , and you chose not to do that. You chose to put forth a health care plan that will leave out at least 15 million people. That's a big difference."

"We've got a lot of similarities in our plan.Weve got a philosophical difference which we've debated repeatedly. And that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health is to force everyone to purchase it. And my belief is that the reason people don't' have it is not because they don't want it but because they can't afford it.

Bill Scher offers this response. He's with the Campaign for America's Future.

"Where the dispute is how significant is it where you make it a legal obligation to purchase health insurance or not. There's arguments on both sides of the argument even with in the progressive legal community which is better."

Immigration was a key issue, as it is to many Texans. Both candidates seemed to alter their positions in Texas last night on the border fence. Both Clinton and Obama said they do not support a border fence. They both voted for it in the Senate last year.

Roberto Lovato is Contributing Editor for New America Media.

"Both candidates when they were asked about the wall didn't just backtrack, the flip flopped in a huge way... I mean you have them previously both voting for border wall and now both of them said they no longer support it but they might support it in some areas which is a diplomatic way of flip flopping out of diplomatic support.

In some areas, policy differences are drastic, and in others, they are non existent. Obama maintains his platform of unity, Clinton claims experience.