“Cruz belongs up there, and I understand why Trump is up there, but the support for Carson frankly I find baffling.”
I’ll take a stab at that for whatever it is worth. He is a brilliant neurosurgeon with huge accomplishments, some people think that means he will be brilliant at government, actually it probably means he is likely NOT to be. We need a generalist, not someone who is brilliant at one very difficult occupation which only a vanishingly small percentage of people could possibly succeed at if they gave their lives to trying. He is a brilliant surgeon who happens to be black, some people want to see a black Republican president and don’t think past that. He is very well spoken, makes a great appearance and impression and seems like someone you would be very happy to have living next door to you, all of which has little to do with being president. So far I am not aware of anything stupid that he has said, that in itself is worth several points in a race like this.
Lastly there are a lot of voters who don’t understand one thing I am talking about but they vote anyway.
I don't know about stupid but he does seem to be somewhat clueless as to what average people go through. I saw him try to answer Wallace's question on how his flat tax plan would raise taxes on the majority of Americans and Carson's answer made little sense.