By IRNA,
New York : Democratic contender Barack Obama won the North Carolina Democratic primary, ending a big-state losing streak going back more than a month.
In Indiana, Hillary Rodham Clinton led in early returns, but most news organizations did not immediately project a winner there.
Obama congratulated Clinton on what he called her apparent victory in Indiana — even though CBS was alone among major news organizations in calling that state’s primary at that point.
But he went on to tell the crowd of about 3,000 that “tonight we stand less than 200 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.”
He described the North Carolina win as a victory “in a big state, in a swing state, in a state where we will compete to win if I am the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.”