History Was Made Tonight At The Democratic National Convention

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DENVER – Eighteen months after launching his campaign for the White House in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln, Democrat Barack Obama has become the first black presidential nominee of a major political party.

Delegates at the 2008 Democratic National Convention proclaimed Obama the party’s standard-bearer by acclamation, ending weeks of division with the supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Clinton appeared on the floor of the convention to ask that Obama be declared the nominee.

The convention also is poised to nominate Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, himself a presidential candidate earlier this year, as Obama’s vice presidential running mate.

Once considered an unlikely nominee in the face of one-time frontrunner Clinton, Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, saw many but not all of Clinton’s diehard supporters finally cast their lots for him during the roll call of states at the Democratic National Convention in the Pepsi Center in Denver.

Kentucky and Indiana, both won by Clinton in the presidential primaries, began swinging over to Obama earlier in the day, even before Clinton released her delegates to vote for Obama.

By the roll-call of the states in late afternoon, the Kentucky delegation was made up of a majority of Obama backers. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced to the convention that 36 delegates out of 60 voted for Obama and 24 voted for Clinton.

A few minutes earlier, Indiana lieutenant governor candidate Dennie Oxley delivered a more overwhelming block of 75 votes to Obama. Six Hoosier delegates voted for Clinton.

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