Posted on 09/01/2015 1:16:36 PM PDT by lbryce
A new poll in early battleground Iowa has former brain surgeon Ben Carson surging into a tie with Donald Trump for the first time in the GOP presidential contest — a stunning jump for a political novice who is the latest outsider to shake up the race.
Trump and Carson, who came to prominence when he laced into President Obama at a televised prayer breakfast in 2013 as the president looked on, each got 23 percent in the Monmouth University poll released Monday. Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina — another outsider who has never held elective office — is third at 10 percent. It’s the first time in a month that Trump hasn’t had the lead all to himself in one of the four early-voting states. When GOP voters in Iowa were asked if the next president should be someone “outside of government,” 66 percent said yes. Only 23 percent opted for “someone with government experience.” “People are hungry for something different, something that has not been tried before,” Iowa state GOP chair Jeff Kaufmann told The Post. “Certainly a neurosurgeon that is involved in politics is new. It’s out of the box, it’s fresh, all of those adjectives that people claim they want. “I always knew, obviously, Republicans are not fans of President Obama,” Kaufmann added. “The depth and intensity of that is actually more than what I had believed it was.”
Carson has impressed GOP crowds with his understated demeanor, slashing attacks on the president, and denunciations of political correctness. He is the only major black presidential candidate in either party, and grew up in tough Detroit neighborhoods — raised by a single mom with only a third-grade education..
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We agree.
Mr. Carson is totally unfit to be POTUS (though a good man).
It seems “white guilt” (phase two; post-Obama)
is like a fungus that has spread to people that believe themselves conservatives.
Mr. Carson is to conservatism as Jimmy Carter is to Christianity.
“Ben Carson is a brain surgeon, I get that, but he doesn’t understand the issues that this country is facing right now. I don’t think he is strong enough to fight back against the establishment consistently for 4 to 8 years either.”
VERY TRUE. Even Reagan was slipping at the end, hence the 1986 Amnesty. They are VERY POWERFUL. No matter how strong a person may be, they will load you up with their ‘advisers’ (most of them gay, by the way) who will work on you, and work on you, and work on you...until you BUCKLE, as Reagan ultimately did.
I too doubt Carson will be able to resist them, but Trump will have NO PROBLEM RESISTING them as those ‘advisers’ (most of them gay, by the way) will be hanging out on street corners with “Will ‘Advise’ for Food” signs.
“Carson would take maybe 10% of the black vote or 1-2% more than any white Republican. Blacks are liberals first.”
And ANYONE that disagrees with you should get with Alan Keyes and ask him how much black support a black conservative gets.
Timed GOPe propoganda to demoralize Trump supporters, nothing to see here, move along.
Yes. Trump is the ONLY one who will be able to stand firm.
not when he’s “mumbling and stumbling” thru answers to debate questions ...
Team Jebs’ Newest Strategy – Push Ben Carson?…
Don't fall for it.
And if he was, ahem, ‘horny’ he would be the surging surgeon sturgeon with urges!
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