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Washington: :With Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton almost even in delegate counts, the two Democratic presidential candidates will focus on several weekend contests and then a trio of primaries in the Washington area next Tuesday.

Super Tuesday delivered a split decision for the Democrats.

CNN estimates showed Hillary earned a handful more delegates than Obama, who surprised observers by taking states where the senator from New York had large polling leads until recently.

The latest estimate gave Hillary 582 of the 1,681 delegates at stake on Tuesday, compared with 562 for Obama.

It will take time to determine the final distribution because of complicated formulas.

CNN's overall count showed Hillary leading at this point in delegates with 823 to Obama's 731. They'll need 2,025 to secure their party's nomination.

Both candidates fly to Washington on Wednesday afternoon for Senate votes, but the next day Obama holds a major rally in New Orleans ahead of this weekend's Louisiana primary.

Washington state and Nebraska also hold caucuses on Saturday, and Maine will holds its caucuses on Sunday.

Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia hold their presidential primaries next Tuesday.

"I look forward to continuing our campaign and our debates about how to leave this country better off for the next generation, because that is the work of my life," the former first lady told supporters at her headquarters in New York on Tuesday night.

Hillary took Tuesday's biggest prize of California, but Obama still earned a large share of the state's 441 Democratic delegates.

Hillary won her home state of New York and neighboring New Jersey as well as Massachusetts, where the state's two US Senators and the governor had endorsed Obama.

She also won primaries in Arkansas, where her husband was governor for more than a decade, and neighboring Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Arizona and American Samoa also fell into Hillary's column.

But Obama won two Deep South states -- Alabama and Georgia -- with overwhelming African-American support despite early endorsements of Hillary by many black officials.