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>>If this were true.............why isn’t Carson beating Trump massively, by double digits in the state polls and national?<<

First, it apparently is true. When the same people who put Trump at the top of the pack when all candidates were considered were then asked how they’d vote if it were just Trump vs. Bush, Trump won handily. Ditto for Walker, Rubio, and Cruz (who lost only by 7 points as I recall)

But when those people were asked the Trump vs. Carson vote, Carson won by almost 20 points (19, I think it was, like 57-38 or so)

How do you explain that? Easy, when people are asked who they support overall, they go with the guy they think will win most of the time, and Trump has been getting non-critical 24/7 news coverage for a month now. When you put him up against a politician, he wins, even though a lot of us are really skeptical of a Trump presidency. Personally, I think he’s a complete joke who’s saying what you want to hear, for example.

Then you put him up against another non-politician who most people actually like and he gets blown away himself. It makes sense.

As for Carson losing the general election, I think the Dems are scared stiff that the GOP could nominate him because he’d tear into their black voter base which is their most reliable source of votes. Just imagine if some of those 100% Obama districts actually had Carson poll watchers, i.e., GOP poll watchers, for once.

I’m not saying I’ll vote for him, but he’s doing amazingly well so far. And note that Trump, so far, has let him be, along with Cruz. I wonder why? He’s clearly a larger threat than some of the candidates Trump’s been berating lately.