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It's official: Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee

DENVER -- The Pepsi Center is rocking to the strains of "Love Train" right now, because Barack Obama is, officially, the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

As expected, when the roll call vote got to the New York delegation it was Hillary Clinton who moved to nominate her former rival by acclamation.

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