See also: Schedule for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, 2008 Democratic Party presidential candidates, and 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries
2008 Democratic National Convention
2008 presidential election
Nominees Obama and Biden
Convention
Date(s)
August 25–28, 2008
City
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Venue
Pepsi Center (August 25 – August 27) Invesco Field at Mile High (August 28)
Chair
Nancy Pelosi of California
Keynote speaker
Mark Warner of Virginia
Notable speakers
Michelle Obama Ted Kennedy Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Nancy Pelosi John Kerry Al Gore Dick Durbin
Candidates
Presidential nominee
Barack Obama of Illinois
Vice presidential nominee
Joe Biden of Delaware
Other candidates
Hillary Clinton
Voting
Total delegates
4,419
Votes needed for nomination
2,210
Results (president)
Obama (IL): 3,188.5 (72.15%) Clinton (NY): 1,010.5 (22.87%) Abstention: 1 (0.00%) Not Voting: 219 (4.96%)
Results (vice president)
Biden (DE): 100% (Acclamation)
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The 2008 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party where it adopted its national platform and officially nominated its candidates for president and vice president. The convention was held in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 to 28, 2008, at the Pepsi Center. Senator Barack Obama from Illinois gave his acceptance speech on August 28 at Invesco Field in what the party called an "Open Convention".[1][2] Denver last hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1908. Obama became the party's first nonwhite nominee, and nominee of African descent, for president. Senator Joe Biden from Delaware was nominated for vice president.
Obama officially received the nomination for president on August 27, when his former opponent, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, interrupted the official roll call to move that Obama be selected by acclamation.[3] U.S. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware accepted the nomination for vice president on the same night. Obama accepted his nomination the following night in a speech at Invesco Field before a record-setting crowd of 84,000 people in attendance.[2]
^"Open Convention". Archived from the original on July 10, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008.
^ ab"Obama accepts Democrat nomination". BBC News. BBC. August 29, 2008. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved August 29, 2008.
^Nagourney, Adam (August 28, 2008). "Obama Wins Hard-Fought Nomination as Biden and Bill Clinton Rally the Party". The New York Times. Retrieved August 27, 2008.
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