HAGATNA, Guam — After Sen. Barack Obama won the Guam caucuses by just seven votes during the weekend, the island's superdelegates also remain split.

Appointment of territorial Sen. Ben Pangelinan to fill the party's vacant national committeeman post on Monday left the nine-vote delegation evenly divided: three votes for Obama, three for Hillary Rodham Clinton and three undecided.

Party chairman Tony Charfauros appointed Pangelinan over two other candidates who were Obama supporters. Pangelinan replaces Robert Underwood who resigned to become president of the University of Guam.

On Saturday, Charfauros lost his race for re-election to the party's top post to Pilar Lujan, who becomes an unpledged superdelegate. She has not stated a candidate preference.

Jaime Paulino, elected party vice chairman, has said he'll support Obama.

Lujan and Paulino are to be sworn in at the next party meeting, and Pangelinan has yet to be confirmed by the Guam Democratic Party's central committee and the party's national committee.

Pangelinan said he would consult with both Clinton and Obama campaigns to decide who is most committed to supporting Guam.

National Committeewoman Talling Taitano has said she'll vote for Clinton.

Guam Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo, also a superdelegate, has made no commitment to either candidate.

As a result of the caucus vote, Obama and Clinton will each get two pledged delegate votes in the convention.

In the caucuses, voters chose among names on slates of Obama and Clinton delegates, electing a total of eight who each will have one-half vote in the August convention in Denver. The top two male and female votegetters from each side will cast the pledged votes.

Party rules also require one of the pledged delegates to be a youth delegate, 35 or younger, but one of the top votegetters already fit that demographic.

A dispute erupted during the vote count which took all night. As the last votes were being counted from the largest Guam village of Dededo, officials argued over what errors would invalidate a ballot. Almost half the ballots coming in from Dededo were being disqualified, with about 600 spoiled ballots.

Despite the dispute, Clinton campaign director Rene Borja said her office would not challenge the results. She said the Clinton campaign would accept the decision of the Democratic nominating committee, which would have to certify the vote.

We did decide on (how to read) the ballot and how we would deal with it," Borja said. "That's something we decided upon and agreed on at the beginning."

In the count that ended midday Sunday, Obama finished with 2,264 votes to Clinton's 2,257 votes.

"The Democratic Party on Guam is alive and well and kicking," Borja said. "And that's what we want to do is keep the momentum to do that and put a Democratic president in place."