Matt Haney can finally get some sleep again.

The first-year law student and Stanford Students for Obama chapter director managed only one hour of shut-eye — in the back seat of a car parked outside the Obama headquarters, no less — in the three days leading up to Super Tuesday. A week later, Haney has his life back — somewhat.

Like a handful of Stanford students supporting either Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) or Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Haney continues to plug away. With the Democratic primary in a dead heat, both campaigns have settled in for a prolonged fight over the coming weeks and months, one that will continue to rely on campus leaders’ efforts despite the focus shifting away from California.

“I’m probably in the category of people who should be disengaging, but having a hard time doing it,” Haney said, “I don’t think people are ready to walk away completely yet.”

After logging 15-hour days campaigning, returning to the classroom hasn’t come easy to those like Haney. With a long primary ahead, and the constant stream of news available on the 24-hour news cycle, the politics fix is an omnipresent temptation.

“It’s hard to stop while this is going on,” Haney said. “I still spend most of my time reading blogs, news and the polls, instead of sitting in class or studying in the library.”

After sweeping this weekend’s Louisiana primary and caucuses in Washington, Nebraska and Maine, Obama still slightly trails Clinton in pledged delegates by most counts. Today’s “Potomac Primary,” however, in which the Illinois senator is up big in polls, could give Obama an undisputed lead.

Campus Clinton supporters, meanwhile, were undeterred.

“We’re going to keep doing what we’ve been doing,” said Mishan Araujo ‘08, who was head of Northern California Women for Hillary Clinton.

The Clinton San Francisco field office closed after Super Tuesday, Araujo said, but she and a handful of hardcore supporters have continued their phone banking and fundraising efforts. The Clinton campaign has its eyes set on delegate-rich primaries in Ohio and Texas in early March, expecting Obama to perform well in the smaller primaries and caucuses in the coming weeks.

“The next couple weeks are going to be hard,” Araujo said. “We’re just going to wait until after Mar. 2 to reassess where the campaign is and where our next steps should be.”

The Obama campaign, too, knows the important role Texas and Ohio will play in the Democratic nomination process. But getting momentum going before March has been an important focus, as well. The Obama team sent five students to Washington for the caucus last weekend, and several die-hards have already headed out to the Lone Star State.

“There’s definitely still a lot going on our end,” said Obama supporter Charlie Davis ‘08. Davis, a Washington native, was one of five who went to his home state to help with the caucus — a process he described as “really rewarding.”

The ultimate reward — the Democratic nomination — remains a distant goal for either side. Both campaigns are well aware of the difficulties involved in gaining, and then keeping, the momentum needed to shore up supporters.

“I’m confident in the campaign,” Araujo said. “But when you lose a couple states, the perception is a little more difficult.”

For the Obama campaign, winning also brings its pitfalls. Students expressed worry that this month’s victories could lull supporters into a false sense of security, much as it did after Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucuses last month.

“After Iowa, I thought we were going to have it, win new Hampshire, and be unstoppable,” Haney recalled. “But that taught us to put our heads down and work for it.”