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If election results were able to accurately reflect the desires of the people, who would become president?
The answer is simple- Ron Paul.

Americans from both the left and the right are constantly complaining about the state of disarry that is our government. We scream for change, real change, year round. Why is it then that the only candidate in the '08 race that represents real change stands no chance?

A recent CNN poll found that 69 percent of people believe things are going badly in Iraq. And over 70% favor at least some form of troop withdrawl. Even 38% of self-proclaimed Republican respondents said that they did not support the Iraq war. Voter preference is quite clear on this issue.

Ron Paul wants out of Iraq too. In fact, he is the only Republican candidate to vote against the war. Even Hillary initially supported going into Iraq.

Another recent CNN poll showed that 54 percent of the 1,013 adults polled said they thought the government was trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. Only 34% said that the government should be doing more.

Conservatives are supposed to be in favor of smaller government and less spending. They are also supposed to be proponents of accountability and self responsibilty. However, during the Republican controlled congress, according to the Congressional Budget Ofiice, discretionary spending grew from $649 billion in fiscal year 2001 to $968 billion in fiscal year 2005- an increase of $319 billion! So, any real fiscal conservative should be in support of Mr. Paul who has never voted to raise taxes, never voted for an unbalanced budget and never voted to increase his own congressional paycheck! In fact, Dr. Paul doesn't participate in the congressional pension program and even gives back a portion of his congressional budget each year! While plenty of our representatives are treating themselves to indulgences on the tax-payer dollar- Ron Paul doesn't even spend his entire government-alloted budget!

On abortion, Dr. Paul is with the majority yet again! According to a May 2007 CNN poll only 37% of the population believe abortion should be 'generally available'. Another 37% believe there should be 'stricter limits' on abortion. Ron Paul is against abortion and, in fact, was an obstetrician for many, many years, delivering thousands of babies in his career.

On immigration, Dr. Paul stands with us as well. Here's what he had to say about the recently-defeated, publicly-loathed, immigration bill...

"Today, we had good news from the US Senate-not exactly a normal occurrence-when the president's immigration bill went down in flames. Here we had a vastly expensive piece of legislation that would have made the immigration problem worse, and put more controls on the economy. So naturally, the entire establishment was behind it. It was a slam-dunk, or so they thought."

Election results cannot accurately reflect the preferences of the voters. If they could, Ron Paul would be our next president.

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