Although Hillary Clinton won the Massachusetts primary last Tuesday, Democratic Brandeis students and Waltham residents seemed to slightly favor Barack Obama, according to an exit poll at the voting site last Tuesday. On election day, a Justice reporter interviewed 52 voters as they exited the polls. Nineteen said they voted for Obama and 15 said they chose Clinton. On the Republican side, nine voted for Romney, eight for John McCain and one for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

In Waltham, which includes the voting district for Brandeis residents, Clinton won with 5,838 votes to Obama's 3,882 votes. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney received 1,849 votes to McCain's 1,474. Huckabee received 97 votes.

According to the most recent results from The Associated Press Friday night, Illinois Senator Barack Obama led New York Senator Hillary Clinton by two delegates for all the contests that took place last Tuesday. The total number of delegates altogether on the Democratic side consists of state delegates pledged to support a candidate and so-called superdelegates, Democratic insiders and officials who may support any candidate they wish. According to The AP last Monday, Clinton has 1,136 delegates compared to 1,108 for Obama.

On Super Tuesday, Clinton won nine states, including Massachusetts, New York and California, while Obama won 13 states including Connecticut, Illinois and Missouri. In addition, over the weekend, Obama won caucuses in Washington, Louisiana, Nebraska and Maine.

On the Republican Side, Arizona Sen. McCain has 719 total delegates to Huckabee's 234, according to the AP. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who received 298 delegates, suspended his campaign on Thursday. McCain on Tuesday won nine states including Arizona, California and Missouri, Huckabee won five states including Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee and Romney won seven states including Massachusetts, Utah and Minnesota. Over the weekend, Huckabee won in caucuses in Kansas and Louisiana while McCain won the Washington caucus.

"I did a lot of work in Massachusetts, and I voted, so it feels great to have [Clinton] do so well here," said Rivka Maizlish '10, who has been organizing the Brandeis effort in support of Clinton.

Maizlish said she had no problem staying up until 2 a.m. to watch late results from states like California, noting that earlier polls had projected a much tighter race there.

Maizlish is already looking ahead to future primaries, especially in Ohio and her home state of Texas on March 4. "That's Clinton country," she said. She said she would be working with the Clinton campaign at home over February break.

Justin Backal-Balik '10, the president of Brandeis for Barack, was happy with the outcome of Tuesday's elections. "We ended up winning more delegates than [Clinton] did last night . and he won more states," he said. "I was a little disappointed about Massachusetts, but other than that, in terms of where everything is, I think we are in very good shape."

He noted that while Clinton had loaned $5 million to her own campaign, Obama had raised $32 million in January.

Backal-Balik said that based on his communications with campaign contacts, the Obama campaign is also looking ahead to the votes in Ohio and Texas in March, while feeling confident about the remaining elections in February. He said he thinks the Brandeis group would be making calls to Ohio, after making over 1,200 calls for Obama on Tuesday.

The Brandeis Republicans also celebrated. "I support John McCain, so I was very happy, he even took California, which was between him and Romney," said Amanda Hecker '10, president of the Brandeis Republicans. She said she was sure McCain would win the nomination at the Republican National Convention. "It's interesting who his vice-president could be," she said.

Hecker said she is also looking towards the outcome of the Democratic race. She said McCain would have an easy victory over Clinton, but "Obama is very charismatic, so it would be an interesting competition between him and McCain."

Three primaries take place today in District of Columbia., Maryland and Virginia.