Sen. Barack Obama Wins Democratic Presidential Nomination
Posted on 04. Jun, 2008 by Blogger in News
Sen. Barack Obama achieved the 2,118 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday, according to the ABC News scorecard, before polls closed in the final primary contests in South Dakota and Montana.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has reached the 2,118 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination — becoming the first African American major party presidential candidate in U.S history.
The presumptive Democratic nominee is expected to win an additional number of delegates from today’s contests and further superdelegate endorsements Tuesday.
Making history by becoming the nation’s first African-American presidential nominee, Obama, D-Ill., emerges victorious from one of the longest and most closely fought Democratic nomination fights in recent history.
“Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another – a journey that will bring a new and better day to America. Because of you, tonight I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States,” Obama told cheering supporters at an arena in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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