Obama’s sister visits Mexico
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Although her half-brother has yet to set foot south of the U.S-Mexico border, Sen. Barack Obama’s half-sister will be in Mexico City this week wooing the expat American community here.
Jeremy Schwartz, the Mexico City correspondent for Cox Newspapers, reports on his blog that Maya Soetoro-Ng (pictured) will be hosting a dinner tomorrow night in the city. Her visit, he says, is a sign of how the Democrats are prioritizing the targeting of Americans living abroad this year in the run-up to November’s elections.
‘Now that the general election is on us, the Democrats Abroad group is pushing its members to get their absentee ballots by signing up online, ‘ writes Schwartz.
‘We’ll see if the effort improves the numbers. The AP reports that of the 990,000 who requested absentee ballots in 2004, less than 400,000 were actually counted (problems with foreign mail services got most of the blame).’
See the full post about Barack Obama’s half-sister’s approaching visit to Mexico here.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City
Photo: Maya Soetoro-Ng; Photo: Lucy Pemoni / AP