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Barack Obama wins, Could this man be America’s first black president?

Posted by Maxime
June 4, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Democrat Barack Obama plunged Wednesday into a five-month election battle with Republican John McCain after making history by becoming the first black presidential nominee of a major US party.
The Illinois senator’s giant-killing win over Hillary Clinton came at the climax late Tuesday of the longest, most expensive and spellbinding nominating epic ever.