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Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008
The
2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama
, then junior United States
Senator
from
Illinois
, was announced at an event on February 10, 2007 in
Springfield, Illinois
. After winning a majority of delegates in the
Democratic primaries of 2008
, on August 23, leading up to the convention, the campaign announced that Senator
Joe Biden
of
Delaware
would be the Vice Presidential nominee. At the
2008 Democratic National Convention
on August 27,
Barack Obama
was formally selected as the
Democratic Party
nominee for
President of the United States
in
2008
. He was the first
African American
in history to be nominated on a major party ticket.
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