It's official. Obama has won the Democratic Party nomination for the US Presidency. U.S. Senator Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, becoming the first African American presidential nominee of a major U.S. party in history. Obama now has passed the threshold of 2,118 national convention delegates needed to clinch this year's Democratic nomination.
2007
JAN 16: Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois launches his campaign by forming a presidential exploratory committee, saying voters are hungry for change.
JAN 20: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York announces she is joining the presidential race. She is considered the early favorite for the nomination.
JUNE 3: On the final day of the primary race, Obama draws enough superdelegates to win the nomination.
And now the situation is that hillary is drawing out of the race to back obama,as he's now the democratic candidate for the presidential election.
The Democrats seem to stand a good chance to beat Republicans in this presidential election and that boosts Obama's odds against his Republican opponent McCain in the general election. Though voters now prefer Democratic policy positions on most major issues, Obama has only a 0.7-percent lead over McCain in the RealClear Politics average of polls.
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