No Organized Political Party

"Still, despite the tension at places like Amici's, historians dismiss the idea that there is something unique about this year's voter angst. Alan Brinkley, a professor of history at Columbia University, says, 'I don't think the level of vitriol is particularly high by the standards of recent elections.' What is different, he says, is the length of the primary race, and the fact that it's 'the role of gender and race,' this time around, that have escalated the passions."

Julia Baird in Newsweek reports from the frontlines of the Clinton-Obama partisan war.