Republicans held their primary in the state last Saturday, and this Saturday it's the Democrats' turn.

All eyes are on Hillary Clinton, or maybe her husband. She has left the state, leaving the former president and their daughter Chelsea to campaign there this week.

Clinton is looking past South Carolina. She is expected to finish second on Saturday, and has turned her attention to the states voting a week from this Tuesday. Missouri is one of those states that votes on February 5.

Clinton took a detour on Wednesday to Pennsylvania, a state that doesn't vote until April, to pick up a key endorsement from Governor Ed Rendell. She also talked about health care in New Jersey, which is one of the Super Duper Tuesday states.

"I'm not running for President to put Band-Aids on our problems. I'm running for President to solve our problems and I think we can solve the problem of getting universal healthcare for everyone," Clinton told residents of New Jersey.

The presidential hopeful will make a brief stop in South Carolina today, but John Edwards says her limited campaigning means that the state must not be very important to her.

"The question is," Edwards asked voters, "If she's not going to spend time here the week before the SC primary, what do you think the chances are that she is coming back after the primary? And what are chances she's coming back when she's President of the United States or if she were President of the United States?"

Meanwhile, Barack Obama is defending himself against campaign smears in South Carolina. An email is being sent to voters saying that Obama is Muslim, which is false. Obama encouraged voters not to believe the lies.

"Don't let people turn you around because they're just making stuff up! That's what they do. They try to bamboozle you! Hoodwink you! (Laughs) Trying to hoodwink you! All right, I'm having too much fun here. I need to do some business," he said.

And the man who spent years as a prisoner of war, then languished over the summer as a candidate is back. John McCain is coming off a big win last weekend in South Carolina, and he's leading the Republicans' next big contest in Florida.

Exit polls show that McCain did well with veterans, independents, and older voters in South Carolina. Now in Florida, McCain is taking pocketbook issues with a state very interested in the nation's economic rebound.

"We have to keep taxes low, and we have to reduce the growth of government spending and bring it under control. We need to make taxes more pro-growth and competitive. We need to make the Bush tax cuts permanent," McCain told Floridans.

Florida poll averages on realclearpolitics.com show McCain with more than 23 percent of the vote. Romney has more than 20 percent, followed by Giuliani and Huckabee, each with less than 20 percent.

Giuliani is putting everything on the line in Florida. He skipped the first six contests, opting to focus solely on Florida's primary this Tuesday.

In most polls in Florida Giuliani trails John McCain and Mitt Romney, but he says he can turn it around. He told voters that he planned to make it so they could file their taxes on a single page of paperwork.

"I'm the only Republican who has a history of tax cutting. I am the only Republican who has done things like this in the past. Turn around a government," he said.

Giuliani is stressing economic issues in Florida, including his plan for stimulating the economy with massive tax cuts and for disaster relief through a national catastrophe insurance fund.

Mitt Romney is second in Florida polls, and is also talking about the economy.

"We want to make sure we have somebody that can beat the democrats. The person who's gonna beat the democrats is a person who knows how the economy works. Who's actually had a job in the real economy. Who knows why jobs come and go," Romney said.

Duncan Hunter, who was polling at around one percent, dropped out of the race this week and threw his support to Mike Huckabee. Huckabee has not recieved much good news since winning Iowa at the beginning of the month.

Huckabee's supporter Chuck Norris says that John McCain is too old to be president, and that the pressure of the presidency will be too much for him.

In response, McCain said this:

I'm afraid I may have to send my 95-year-old mother over and wash Chuck's mouth out with soap...thanks very much."