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On August 27, 2008 he became the nominee of the Democratic Party for the US presidential election 2008.
He is the first African American and first biracial in history to run on a major party ticket.
On August 23, 2008 Barack Obama's campaign confirmed earlier reports that Senator Joe Biden of Delaware would be the Vice Presidential nominee.

On November 4, 2008, projections indicate that Obama won the election, making him the president-designate. His formal election to the office occurs pending the meeting of the Electoral College on December 15 2008, and the subsequent certification of the college's vote by the United States Congress on January 6, 2009.

End of the primaries
On June 3, 2008, after the Montana and South Dakota primaries, Barack Obama secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States.
His opponent, Republican John McCain, passed the delegate threshold to become the presumptive nominee of his party on March 4.

On June 7, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's remaining opponent in the quest for the Democratic nomination, conceded defeat at a rally in Washington, D.C. and urged her supporters to back Obama .
After a June 26 dinner at which Obama encouraged his fundraisers to donate to Clinton's debt-addled campaign, Obama and Clinton ran their first post-primary event together in Unity, New Hampshire on June 27.
Over the first two weeks of July, the campaign ran a heavier schedule of fundraising events, drawing from former donors to Clinton's campaign.

Middle Eastern and European tour
In July 2008 Obama traveled to Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, Germany, France, and Great Britain.
During the course of this trip he met with assorted international leaders, including President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, as well as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Conservative opposition leader David Cameron.
On July 24, 2008 he gave a speech at the Victory Column in Berlin before a crowd of estimated 200,000 to 240,000 people.

Saddleback Civil Forum
Barack Obama's vice presidential running mate had been a subject of speculation since the end of the primaries.
As of August 2008, some of the most popular choices for VP included, but were not limited to, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, Colin Powell, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and retired General Wesley Clark.

On Thursday, August 21, 2008, Obama announced that he had made a selection for the VP spot, but would not reveal until Saturday, August 23 who it was.

Obama's campaign encouraged supporters to sign up for a text messaging system that would alert them the moment he announced his choice.
On Friday, August 22, KMBC News of Kansas City spotted bumper stickers of an Obama/Bayh '08 ticket that were being printed in Lenexa, Kansas.
Three sources close to a local printing plant reported that such material was being produced.
The image of the bumper sticker circulated on the internet.
However, NBC News later quoted sources stating that Bayh had been informed by Obama's campaign that he was not the pick.

According to an Associated Press report that same evening, Joe Biden was selected as Obama's candidate.
The Associated Press report was confirmed several hours later, on August 23, on Barack Obama's official campaign website and by a mass text message to supporters.

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