Obama says win in S.C. marks a turn in party history
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Barack Obama says his convincing win in South Carolina's Democratic primary shows that a black candidate can appeal to voters of all colors and in all regions.
Obama's remarks are in response to comments by former President Clinton that some interpreted as an effort to diminish Obama's win Saturday over Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The former president noted that Jesse Jackson won the South Carolina primary in 1984 and 1988 but never became the party's presidential nominee.
Obama, appearing on ABC's "This Week," resisted being drawn into a spat with the Clintons even though he suggested they are part of a political past the country is ready to leave behind.
But he says that voters appear to weary of the "slash-and-burn politics" that he says prevailed in the '90's.
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