After months of debating and voting, the democrat primaries are slowly winding down.

Political experts and members of the Democratic Party have pegged the Pennsylvania primary on Apr. 22 as the ending of the Obama-Clinton standoff. Earlier in the race, democrat leaders said candidates would be pressured by this primary to drop out, and more are beginning to see the ramifications of longer party disputes.

"If [the race] drags on, it might hurt the party, but we're thinking it won't hurt too long," said Bill Keshlear, communications director of the Utah Democrat Party. "The bottom line is it will go through the Pennsylvania primary."

Rasmussen polls already show a difference in the democrats' appeal. In a poll pitching Sen. John McCain against Sen. Barack Obama in the general election, McCain leads by seven points. However, Gallup polls show Obama leading by a statistically insignificant lead. When McCain and Sen. Hillary Clinton are matched up, the results are a relative tie, with a slight edge to McCain. In previous months, both democrat candidates had commanding leads.

Rasmussen projects Clinton will win Pennsylvania by a five-point lead, but, like many democrat primaries, Pennsylvania's delegates will be proportionally divided between the two candidates. Despite Clinton's hard-fought battles, she has been unable to gain the delegates and support necessary to overtake Obama.

In recent weeks, the democrat race has become more heated as the candidates switch barbs.

"We won't be lectured on being out of touch by Senator Clinton, who believes lobbyists represent real people and is awash in their money and who can't tell a straight story about her lengthy record of supporting trade deals like NAFTA and China that have devastated communities in Pennsylvania and Indiana," said Hari Sevugan, spokesperson for Obama for America. "She won't change the broken Washington system that all too often leaves American workers behind, but Barack Obama will."

Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, has also been under attack during college town hall meetings while she campaigns for her mother. Students have questioned the former first daughter about her thoughts on her father's affair with former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.

"You're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the, I don't know, maybe 70 college campuses I've been to," Clinton said, "and I do not think that is any of your business."

Since that incident at Indianapolis' Butler College, the question was raised again at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Three top Utah democrats, including Wayne Holland, Utah Democratic Party chair and Utah superdelegate, have endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton for president.

"Sen. Obama has helped to energize our State Party," Holland said. "We need a president with a ground-level view of the everyday struggles of Americans, and Obama's experience as a community activist and lawmaker fits that requirement."