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DENVER — He’s going to gain.

It’s true that watching a historic speech with 84,000 joyous people in succession a elegant Colorado night is bound to sway a person. Not to mention that I got to fulfil Susan Sarandon.

But that was my paunch impression for the period of Barack Obama’s taking of the Democratic nomination Thursday night. It doesn’t indefinite amount that he’s young, inexperienced and has that foreign-sounding name.

He’s going to be the next president anyway.

It’s not that his speech was spectacular and soaring — it wasn’t, and I was grateful for that. It didn’t match, for spine-tingling inspiration, the “we’re not blue states or red states, we’re the United States” speech he gave at the 2004 assembly in Boston.

That one was a balm because a beat-up nation. This single in kind was tougher. Pugilistic. “Workmanlike,” as he had said it would be.

He gave a few specifics round what he wants to do — a move that brought a cheer from a crowd that knows he can be maddeningly vague. It was a bold liberal vision, perhaps too large for America.

“This is not the time for small plans,” he said.

But the reason I think Obama’s going to win is that his uprising has always been fueled by the agency of something far more primal than at all government policy or program. It’s the same obstruct Ronald Reagan bottled in the 1980s.

Is this freedom nearly the future, or the past?

“It time for them to own their failure,” he said of the Republicans, calling the GOP’s ideas stale, their diplomacy divisive, their programs and policies contrite.

It’s time for the rest of us, he said, to look to a “good in a higher degree place around the bend.”