Barack Obama made history yesterday, winning the Democratic nomination for President and becoming the first black nominee ever, for either party.
According to the New York Post, about 17,000 people came out to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota last night to greet Obama with waving signs, wild applause and shouts of victory. Another 15,000 waited outside chanting Barack's catch phrase, "Yes We Can!"
"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another - a journey that will bring a new and better day to America," he told the crowd of supporters.
Barack's rival, Senator Hillary Clinton stuck it out to the end - refusing to concede even when her own supporters thought it necessary - Barack complimented the former contender in his speech.
"Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton," he said.
At the beginning of yesterday's wind-down, which included primaries in Montana (that Obama took) and South Dakota (won by Clinton), Obama only needed 40 delegates to put him at the targeted 2,118 votes that would clinch the nomination. He got that and more, ending the night at 2,154 after a rollout of superdelegate support, according to an Associated Press count.
SOHH readers predicted the win in a poll conducted back in January.
From here, Barack will go up against 71-year-old Vietnam War vet and Republican presidential nominee John McCain, in the race for the presidency.
Written By Brandi Hopper for SOHH.com
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