Hillary Clinton edged ahead of Barack Obama today in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination as results from the Super Tuesday elections came in.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appeared to be splitting the Democratic vote today as the first results from the Super Tuesday elections came in.

Barack Obama stood alongside a trio of former president John F Kennedy’s family members as he was hailed as the man who could change America, reinvigorate the American Dream and “turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion” today.