August 29, 2008 Analyzing Obama's big night in Denver Play video

(NECN: Denver, CO) - In front of a crowd of over 80,000, Barack Obama officially accepted the Democratic Nomination for President.

He vowed to cut taxes for nearly all working-class families, end the war in Iraq and break America's dependence on Mideast oil within a decade. By contrast, he said, "John McCain has voted with President Bush 90 percent of the time," a scathing indictment of his Republican rival - on health care, education, the economy and more.

Polls indicate a close race between Obama and McCain, the Arizona senator who stands between him and a place in history. On a night 45 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a Dream Speech," Obama made no overt mention of his own race.

NECN's Jim Braude and political analyst Alison King are on the floor at Invesco Field. They break down Obama's historic night, and take a look at what lies ahead. Jim and Alison will be in St. Paul next week for the Republican National Convention.