Obama wins South Carolina primary

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The 46-year-old Illinois senator told his supporters "we can heal this nation" with a strong message of change and hope as he won more than 50% of the southern state's votes.

Former US first lady Hillary Clinton - who won in New Hampshire, Michigan and Nevada - came in second and quickly left the state as she moved her attention to next month's Super Tuesday, when more than 20 states go to the polls.

In his victory speech in Columbia, South Carolina, Mr Obama said: "The choice in this election is not between regions, or religions, or genders.

"It's not about rich versus poor, young versus old, and it is not about black versus white.

"This election is about the past versus the future. It's about whether we settle for the same divisions and distractions and drama that passes for politics today, or whether we reach for the politics of common sense and innovation, the politics of shared sacrifice and shared prosperity."

Exit polls showed about half the voters in the state were black and four out of five of them supported Mr Obama, who is aiming to be the first African American president of the United States.

Black women turned out in particularly large numbers and the first-term Illinois senator got a quarter of the white vote while Mrs Clinton and Mr Edwards split the rest.

Analysis of the exit polls also showed Mr Obama appealed to well-educated, younger voters.

He said his campaign would leave South Carolina with "a new wind at our backs", but with the same message: "Out of many we are one; while we breathe, we will hope; and where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words: 'Yes we can'."