Missouri is getting attention today from both Republican and Democratic candidates. Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee was in Jefferson City and held a news conference at the Associate Industries building, where there was standing room only.

Huckabee won in Iowa, and is currently third in the Republican presidential race behind Mitt Romney and John McCain.

Huckabee is running on a platform that is anti-abortion, anti-same sex marriage, and anti-federally funded embryonic stem cell research. He supports Bush's Iraq policy, his social security policy allowing private retirement accounts as well as Bush's immigration plan allowing some illegal immigrants to obtain U.S. citizenship.

Huckabee is unhappy with the current state of health care in America, however, he opposes federally mandated universal coverage.

The Rasmussen report poll puts Huckabee in first. However, the Research 2000- Post Dispatch poll projected John McCain as the winner.

Huckabee isn't the only presidential hopeful in Jefferson City today. Just a few miles away, Democratic candidate John Edwards is holding his own campaign rally to gain support in Missouri.

Huckabee was supposed to visit Columbia Tuesday, but campaign officials said scheduling problems forced him to cancel.

Democratic candidate Barack Obama will also be in Missouri Tuesday. He is scheduled to be in Kansas City in the afternoon.