August 28, 2008 Dems choose Obama; Clinton joins in acclamation Play video

(NECN: Denver, CO) - Senator Barack Obama swept the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday night as thousands of national convention delegates cheered his improbable triumph.

Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton made it unanimous, the
culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between the two
camps to present a unified front.

Convention delegates stood and cheered in approval Wednesday as
former Obama rival Hillary Rodham Clinton called for his nomination
by acclamation.

Obama was across town as the delegates he won in the primaries
of winter and spring sealed his victory. Aides left open the
possibility that he would briefly visit the Pepsi Center to thank
his supporters, a routine event at recent national conventions. His
formal acceptance speech Thursday night was expected to draw a
crowd of 75,000 at a nearby football stadium where an elaborate
backdrop was under construction.

Obama, 47 and in his first Senate term, carries the Democrats'
hopes of recapturing the White House into the fall campaign against
Sen. John McCain and the Republicans.

*Material from the Associated Press used in this report*