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Obama routs Hillary in S Carolina

AP, Columbia
Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.
"The choice in this election is not about regions or religions or genders," Obama said at a boisterous victory rally. "It's not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it's not about black versus white. It's about the past versus the future."
The audience chanted "Race doesn't matter" as it awaited Obama to make his appearance after rolling up 55 percent of the vote in a three-way race.
But it did, in a primary that shattered turnout records. About half the voters were black, according to polling place interviews, and four out of five of them supported Obama. Black women turned out in particularly large numbers Obama, the first-term Illinois senator, got about a quarter of the white vote while Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina split the rest.
Hillary Clinton flew to Nashville as the polls closed, and looked ahead. "Now the eyes of the country turn to Tennessee and the other states voting on Feb. 5," she said, adding "millions and millions of Americans are going to have their voices heard."
Edwards finished a distant third, a sharp setback in the state where he was bom and scored a primary' victory in his first presidential campaign four years ago. Even so. he vowed to remain in the race, his goal, he said, to "give voice to all those whose voices aren’t being heard"
The victory was Obama's first since he won the kickoff Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3. Clinton, a New York senator and former first lady, scored an upset in the New' Hampshire primary a few’ days later. They split the Nevada caucuses, she winning the turnout race, he gaining a one-delegate margin. In an historic race, she hopes to become the first w oman to occupy the White House, and Obama is the strongest black contenderinhistory’.
The South Carolina primary marked the end of the first phase of the campaign for the Democratic nomination, a series of single-state contests that winnowed the field, conferred co-front-runner status on Hillary' Clinton and Obama but had relatively few delegates at stake.
That all changes in 10 days' time, w'hen New York, Illinois and California are among the 15 states holding pnmaries in a virtual nationwide pnmary. Another seven states and American Samoa will hold Democratic caucuses on the same day.
Obama took a thinly veiled swipe
at Clinton in his remarks.
"We are up against conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candour, and judgment, and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose a higher purpose, "Obama said.
Looking ahead to Feb. 5, he added that "nearly half the nation will have the chance to join us in saying that we are tired of business-as-usual in Washington, we are hungry for change, and w’e are ready to believe again."
Nearly complete returns showed Obama winning 55 percent of the vote, Clinton gaining 27 percent. Edwards had 18 percent and won only his home county of Oconee.
Obama also gained 25 convention delegates, Clinton won 12 and Edwardseight — . .
Overall, Hillary Clinton has 249 delegates, followed by Obama with 167 and Edwards with 58.
Obama also gained an endorsement from Caroline Kennedy, who likened the Illinois senator to her late father. President John F. Kennedy.
"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them," she wTote on The New York Times op-ed page." But for the first time, I believe I have found a man who could be that president and not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."