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news.yahoo.com - 8/28/2008
Dems choose Obama in thunderous acclamation (AP)
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AP - Barack Obama swept to the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday night, a transforming triumph that made him the first black American to lead a major party into the fall campaign for the White House. Thousands of national convention delegates stood and cheered as they made history.

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Corrente — Obama set to woo nation with historic speech AP - Barack Obama stands before delegates and the nation Thursday — the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech — to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the first black man to claim such a prize. After having roughhoused the first woman who had a chance to claim that prize, and refused her the right to a full roll call for fear he might lose.—Caro CQ Politics

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