Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination
Last Primaries and Superdelegates Push Obama to Victory
By JENNIFER PARKER
June 3, 2008 —
Based on the preliminary exit polls and our reporting, ABC News projects Sen. Barack Obama will have enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination after the final primary votes are counted tonight.
Obama, D-Ill., is within 8 delegates of the 2,118 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president and is expected to win an additional number of delegates in the final primary contests and further superdelegate endorsements Tuesday.
Making history by becoming the nation's first African-American major party presidential nominee, Obama, emerges victorious from one of the longest and most closely found Democratic nomination fights in recent history.
The win is a huge accomplishment for Obama, 46,a first-term U.S. senator who would be among the youngest presidents in U.S. history if he wins the White House.
Delivering rousing speeches with a popular message of hope and change, Obama's insurgent candidacy inspired record-breaking campaign contributions, record turnout by black voters, and wide support from independents, liberals, young voters, and high-income, better-educated Democrats.
He cast his campaign as a rejection of old-style Washington politics and painted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as an incumbent.
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