Barack Obama will Thursday summon Americans to join his crusade for political change, as he claims his place in history in a dazzling finale to the Democratic convention.
The Illinois senator will formally accept his nomination as the first African-American major party White House candidate before more than 70,000 people crammed into an open-air football stadium in Colorado.
Historic echoes will be everywhere: the speech will be taking place on the 45th anniversary of the day when civil rights icon Martin Luther King envisaged an elusive future of racial equality in his "I have a Dream" speech.
Against a classically-themed backdrop and with fireworks primed to go off after his closing line, Obama will set course for a general election showdown with Republican John McCain in November which polls show is a dead heat.
While the evening will be a spectacular affair, Obama knows he must try to reach into the living rooms of American voters struggling to make ends meet amid an economic crunch, and who have turned against the Iraq war.
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