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Hillary Clinton looms large despite Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama double

By Sarah Smith, Jon Snow

Updated on 26 August 2008

Jon Snow and Sarah Smith look back at the first full day of the Democratic Convention in Denver Colarado.

First Michelle Obama took to the stage, declaring her husband would make "an extraordinary president".

Then another party icon, Senator Edward Kennedy, struggling with brain cancer, told a rapt convention centre that in Barack Obama, the "dream lives on".

But for thousands of delegates the real story remains the candidate who didn't win, Hillary Clinton.

Will her speech at the convention do enough to heal the party's damaging rift?

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