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In Historic Vote, Obama Officially Claims Democratic Nomination

 

Published 8/27/2008 by Jonathan Weisman at Wash Post Elections

DENVER -- With the weight of history hanging over them, Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Democratic Party formally chose Sen. Barack Obama as the nominee for the White House, elevating the first African American to that exalted post and putting a black man a step from the presidency. (link)

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