Barack Obama greets a crowd of supporters in South Carolina. (Photo credit: USA Today)

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who won the South Carolina Democratic primary yesterday by a landslide, has received endorsements from Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. (commonly known as Ted) Kennedy. Ted Kennedy is expected to officially announce his endorsement tomorrow at Obama’s rally at American University in Washington, D.C.

In an opinion editorial in today’s New York Times, Caroline had the following to say:

In yesterday’s South Carolina primary, Obama easily defeated fellow Deomocratic hopefuls Hillary Clinton and John Edwards (who is actually from South Carolina), thanks to a large showing of black voters in the state. Of the total amount of voters in the state, 55 percent were African American, 78 percent of which voted for Obama. It is the largest percentage of black voters to ever participate in a primary in the state’s history.