This report is the first result of our “Keeping It Real” research. It analyzes, for realism and innovation, eight Presidential front-runners’ proposals on five issues critical to America’s continued success and prosperity. It concludes that many of the presidential candidates’ promises are laudable, but that the federal government and the industry that supports it can not deliver on those promises in the timeframe Americans expect without major changes in the way we do business. The research was presented January 8, 2008 at the Consumer Electronics Show Government Conference in Las Vegas. Originally posted by Bruce McConnell on governmentfutures.com in 2008.