The Associated Press has projected that Barack Obama will be the Democratic Presidential nominee.

Here's their report:

"Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois effectively has clinched the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates as some of the party's superdelegates step forward on the final day of party primaries.

The AP's tally puts Obama over the top of the 2,118 convention delegates needed for nomination in Denver this summer.

This could make Obama, junior senator from Illinois, the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.

Obama apparently has outrun former first lady and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York in a historic party contest, and is poised to face Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, in a bid for the presidency."

The Associated Press also reported earlier today that Hillary Clinton would concede later tonight, but the Clinton campaign has denied those reports.