Michelle Obama in ABQ, Santa Fe on Thursday

By Heath Haussamen 9/1/08 5:03 PM

Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, will be in Santa Fe and Albuquerque on Thursday to campaign for her husband.

In Santa Fe, Obama will host a round-table discussion with military spouses, according to a news release from the campaign. In Albuquerque, she will participate in a Women for Obama voter-registration rally.

More details will be announced in the coming days, the news release stated.

This will be Obama’s third visit to New Mexico to campaign for her husband. She was in Las Cruces in February and Albuquerque in May.

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chupacabra 3 months ago 1 point
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Agreed. Santa Fe is most assuredly blue in November, they need to work on the south. Scratch that. WE need to work on the south.

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danehrig 3 months ago 1 point
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This doesn't really make any sense to me- Albuquerque has a gigantic Air Force base and as a result many, many military spouses, both active duty and retired. Santa Fe... not so much. I'm a military brat and I can tell you that the vast, vast majority of military families could never afford to live in Santa Fe unless they had inherited money. I doubt even most flag officers (Generals and Admirals) could afford to live there. Clovis or Alamogordo would have been much more appropriate.

I assume this was set up by the SF-centric Dem party leaders. It really is a shame, how many spouses of enlisted soldiers are going to travel all the way up to SF for this? Michelle will probably end up meeting mostly with relatively wealthy spouses of retired career officers and not really hear much about how the majority of soldiers and their families lives are.

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