"This of course is a historic Super Tuesday," said Professor Kenneth Janda, the watch's moderator.
Though the political science election watch party is a tradition during every presidential election, this is the first primary-watch party.
"Tonight, the February 5th election, we are electing more than half the delegates to both parties' conventions," Janda said. "In 1996, the first primary in New Hampshire wasn't until Feb 21. We're really frontloading it this year, it's close to a national primary."
Aside from the timing of this year's primaries, the candidates themselves have made this election more interesting than in years past.
"Last time we just had a bunch of staunch old white guys," said graduate student Marissa Brookes. "Even the Republicans all have something wrong with them that's going to split the Republican vote."
As of 8:30 pm, most students agreed that none of the reported results were very surprising. Obama took Illinois and Georgia, Clinton is expected to take Arkansas and New York, Romney is victorious in his home state of Massachussetts and McCain leads in New Jersey and Illinois.
Polls in one of the night's most important states-- California-- still had open polls.
"Unless Romney wins California, it's going to be McCain's night," said Professor Larry Stuepnagel.
Many out-of-state students said they voted by absentee ballot.
"Obama's been ganing ground," said Communication freshman Kim Castel, a California native. "He's really popular among young people so it will be interesting to see how many young people vote."
For both parties, tonight's primaries may shape the rest of the presidential race.
"When this night is over, we still may not have a clear Democratic leader and McCain may not have enough delegates to be called the frontrunner for the Republicans," Janda said.
—NATHALIE TADENA
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