I haven't really been following the Democratic race. I think the main reason for that is because i know that, while i might not consider myself a democrat, they more closely represent my views more frequently than republicans, and I feel that it would be less dangerous globally to have a non-republican, no matter the case. of course i'll do my research when the time comes, though.

I have, however, been following the Republican race and it is actually quite interesting. On the FOXNews debate last night, viewers voted that they felt Ron Paul won the debate, and I find that amazing. He seemed to be the only one up there getting considerable applause after every comment (save when Bret Hume acted like a douche to him). Although many of his ideas appeal to me, overall my views consider the libertarian approach to be inappropriate. Although i do agree that we should distance ourselves for Isael, as it is at least one of the top 3 reasons (and at most the #1 reason) why so much hatred in the Middle East is directed towards us.

I'm troubled at the fact that immigration is even a contentious issue right now. I honestly don't see any problem that it poses that couldn't be remedied by allocating the tremendous amounts of money we give to projects that will never yield anything to the military and NASA. Don't get me wrong, i believe in an overwhelming defense, but the statistics on money going over there for said projects is infuriating. There's enough of the pie to go around, and our diversity in America is directly corollated to our ability to adapt.