Reuters: Obama wins North Carolina 07 MayReuters: Obama wins North Carolina 07 May5

This is his 9th straight victory over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in their battle for the party's presidential nomination.

On the Republican side, Super Tuesday's elections put John McCain -- who won nine primaries-- including New York, California, Missouri and Illinois-- well on his way to his party's presidential nomination. Jon Decker reports.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were nervously awaiting the verdict on Tuesday of voters in North Carolina and Indiana, the biggest nominating contests left in their Democratic presidential tussle. An AFPTV report.

Obama trounced his Democratic rival, taking 61 percent of the vote to Clinton's 37 percent. Exit polls showed that about 90 percent of African-Americans backed Obama, who is trying to become America's first black president. The victory in Mississippi extended Obama's lead over Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates to the August nominating convention. The next big showdown is in Pennsylvania in six weeks time. With 158 delegates at stake, it's the biggest single-state haul remaining in the race for the nomination.

The Illinois senator ran on a campaign of change and against what he called the partisan climate in American politics. Obama's win has dealt a setback to national front-runner New York Senator Hillary Clinton in the first nominating contest of the 2008 U.S presidential election and gives him momentum as he heads into the January 8th primary vote in New Hampshire, where polls showed him in a tight race with Clinton.

Obama, aided by a huge edge among black voters, leads Clinton 43 percent to 25 percent in the rolling tracking poll. John Edwards is a distant third at 15 percent heading into Saturday's contest. The race in South Carolina still shows some fluidity. Jon Decker reports.

Iowa turned into a battle among Democrats between Clinton's message of experience and Obama's of change which the first-term Illinois senator won decisively.The Illinois senator, bidding to become the first black U.S. president, said his upbeat campaign appealed to young people and had attracted the record numbers that propelled him past New York Sen. Hillary Clinton on Thursday to make him Iowa's choice for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll put Obama within striking distance of Clinton in New Hampshire. She led Obama 32 percent to 26 percent. Former Sen. John Edwards, the runner-up in Iowa, was at 20 percent and no other Democrat was in double digits.

Obama, who is locked in a tight duel for the Democratic presidential nomination with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, said struggling homeowners need immediate relief. Speaker: Sen. Barack Obama

Clinton's victory gave her new momentum and set up a tough battle with Obama as the race heads on to contest in Nevada and South Carolina