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Sept. 6, 2012 / 12:27 AM

It's official: Democrats nominate Obama

Alice Germond, Secretary of the Democratic National Convention, is seen on screen as she announces that President Barack Obama has won the needed 2,777 votes to be the parties candidate for the 2012 Presidential election, during the Democratic National Convention at the Times Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 5, 2012. UPI/Kevin Dietsch

Alice Germond, Secretary of the Democratic National Convention, is seen on screen as she announces that President Barack Obama has won the needed 2,777 votes to be the parties candidate for the 2012 Presidential election, during the Democratic National Convention at the Times Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 5, 2012. UPI/Kevin Dietsch | License Photo

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., early Thursday nominated President Obama as the party's standard-bearer.

Obama needed 2,778 votes to be nominated. Roughly 6,000 delegates are seated at this convention.

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