The political world has been heating up as election day draws closer. With a war of words, debates, campaign trail controversy and more, both parties are going down to the finish line with their messages.

This weekend, Senator Barack Obama's campaign got a boost from Hillary and Bill Clinton. The Clintons joined Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden in Scranton, Pennsylvania to continue their efforts to elect Obama.

Hillary Clinton spoke to the crowd about why she is speaking out against Republicans.

"Sending the Republicans to solve this economic crisis is like sending the bull to clean up the china closet. They broke it and we're not buying it anymore," she noted. "Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be leaders who will lead us out of this economic crisis."

This weekend also saw John McCain speaking about his standing in the race and he offered up a challenge to Sen. Obama, by claiming he'd "whip" Obama in the final presidential debate.

"After I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we're going to be going out 24/7," he told supporters while campaigning in Arlington, Virginia. "I want to emphasize again, I respect Senator Obama. We will conduct a respectful race, and we will make sure that everybody else does, too."

He also went on to speak about how he views his current standing in the polls.

"I'd like to give you a little straight talk, we're a couple points down, ok, nationally, but we're right in this game. The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we've seen it come back up because they want experience, and they want knowledge and they want vision. And we'll give that to America, and I know that we're going to win this race."

The final presidential debate is set to take place Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008 at Hofstra University. CBS' Bob Shieffer is scheduled to moderate the debate.