| Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama D-Ill., arrives for an election night rally with his wife Michelle in St. Paul, Minnesota, Tuesday. (AP Photo) |
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WASHINGTON (Updated 10:42 a.m.) -- Barack Obama sealed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the first black U.S. president. A defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his ticket without conceding her own defeat.
Obama's victory sets up a five-month campaign against Republican John McCain, a race between a 46-year-old opponent of the Iraq War and a 71-year-old former Vietnam prisoner of war and staunch supporter of the current U.S. military mission.
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