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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 28 > Democrats nominate Obama

Democrats nominate Obama

Senator is nation’s first black major-party candidate

By Adam Nagourney / The Bulletin
August 28, 2008

DENVER — Barack Obama, a freshman senator who defeated the first family of Democratic Party politics with a call for a fundamentally new course in politics, was nominated by his party Wednesday to be the 44th president of the United States.

The unanimous vote made Obama the first....

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