The marathon White House race Wednesday headed to new battlegrounds, with Hillary Clinton's Democratic duel with Barack Obama wide open, and Republican John McCain still seeking a knockout blow.
The Super Tuesday nationwide nominating showdown was once seen as the moment when party nominees would be crowned, yet, on the Democratic side at least it solved little, as Clinton and Obama slogged out a split decision.
Clinton, 60, won the three biggest prizes, California, her home state of New York and Massachusetts by handy margins, checking an Obama surge by capturing eight states, keeping alive her quest to be the first woman president.
But Senator Obama won more states, 13, including his own patch of Illinois, battlegrounds Connecticut and Missouri, and Georgia by a landslide. New Mexico was still too close to call. Obama would be the first black US president.
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