Barack Obama will be making his first Presidential campaign visit to South Carolina next week, the Associated Press reports. He'll be heading to Columbia and Orangeburg on February 16 and 17. South Carolina politicos say he can expect a rousing reception; as former DNC Chairman and South Carolina native Don Fowler put it, "I think he'll get the same kind of reception here he's gotten everywhere." South Carolina, incidentally, is a key state for Obama, for two reasons: First, about half of its primary electorate is made up of black voters; and second, John Edwards — one of Obama's chief rivals — won the state in the 2004 primary.