The race to the polls....or should I say the cut throat marathon to victory?

We all know how heated elections can become, and it comes as no surprise that perhaps the biggest and most important one is the most heated of all the competitions. As of now, when we are still struggling to pick a candidate for each party, it is hard to determine where the personal competition stops and the goals for the country begin. The race between Hilary and Barak is almost more of a "yo mama" type stage than a presidential campaign. Shouldn't they be more focused on getting a democrat in office than destroying each other? They seem to disagree. I see this as pretty selfish. Yes their ideas are different and their plans take our country in different directions, but doesn't it all come down to the fact that they're both democrats and their core beliefs are probably pretty similar? I think so, and therefore think that it's pretty selfish that they're both destroying the other for their own gain, only at the expense of the party. In an article from Time magazine, Michael Duffy says the "Democratic race is sidetracked on a direction that leads, like a scene from one of those Back to the Future movies, off a cliff."

*Duffy, Michael. Race Spells Trouble for the Dems. 14, Jan. 2008. <http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1703310,00.html>.