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Published 8/28/2008 by Dan Balz and Anne E. Kornblut at Wash Post Obama Administration
DENVER, Aug.27 -- Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois completed an improbable and historic journey here Wednesday when he was nominated by acclamation as the Democratic candidate for president, becoming the first African American to lead a major political party into a general-election campaign.
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