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WRAL.com - AP Political News
WRAL.com - AP Political News
Democrats choose Obama in historic acclamation
Posted: 28 Aug 2008 at 12:18am
Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination, as thousands of Democrats transformed their convention hall into a joyful, shouting celebration.
Obama makes unscripted convention appearance
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 11:27pm
Sen. Barack Obama dropped in on his own party at the Democratic convention a day early Wednesday to praise his wife, his former rival, and former President Bill Clinton for going to bat for him.
Biden says nation needs more than a good soldier
Posted: 28 Aug 2008 at 12:27am
Joe Biden accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination Wednesday night and declared that the challenges America faces require "more than a good soldier" in the White House, hailing Barack Obama as a wise leader who can deliver the change the nation needs.
Bill Clinton forcefully endorses Obama at DNC
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 11:21pm
Former President Clinton gave his full-throated endorsement to Barack Obama's bid for the White House on Wednesday, telling delegates to the Democratic convention that Obama is "ready to lead America and restore American leadership in the world."
Obama: History in the making, first black nominee
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 7:05pm
When this campaign ends, after future presidents have come and gone, and when today's young people are grown old, history will remember Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, as the day a black man became the presidential nominee of a major party.
FactCheck: The fuller story in Denver
Posted: 28 Aug 2008 at 12:11am
Sen. Barack Obama's formal nomination Wednesday as the Democratic candidate for president brought with it praise for Obama and a barrage of renewed attacks on his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain. Some were on point, others missed the mark.
The Democrats' convention floor is ... democratic
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 8:24pm
We supposedly live in a classless society, but the velvet ropes have been spreading like weeds in recent years. How odd, then, that the power-saturated floor of the Democratic National Convention is, in fact, one of the most democratic places on Earth - providing, that is, you have the proper credentials.
Clinton helps seal Obama nomination amid cheers
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 10:08pm
It was a closing of sorts, but whether closure was there is another matter.
Potential Obama veeps get turn on stage
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 11:17pm
Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't the only also-ran on the loose in Denver. Three officials who were mentioned as possible running mates for Barack Obama but didn't make it onto the ticket got a chance to address the Democratic convention Wednesday night.
Clinton releases delegates
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 4:44pm
In an emotional meeting leading up to the Democratic roll call of the states, Hillary Rodham Clinton released her convention delegates Wednesday to vote for certain presidential nominee Barack Obama.
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