Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination
Last Primaries and Superdelegates Push Obama to Victory
By JENNIFER PARKER
June 3, 2008
RSS 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 votes from the final primary contests are counted tonight.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., meets with workers at the Rite-Aid Distribution Center during a campaign stop in Waterford, Mich., June 2, 2008.
(Chris Carlson/AP Photo)Obama, D-Ill., is within 10 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.
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