Poll Watch: Ben Carson Edges Ahead Nationally in Times/CBS News Poll
Source: New York Times
Ben Carson has taken a narrow lead nationally in the Republican presidential campaign, dislodging Donald J. Trump from the top spot for the first time in months, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Tuesday.
Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, is the choice of 26 percent of Republican primary voters, the poll found, while Mr. Trump now wins support from 22 percent, although the difference lies within the margin of sampling error.
The survey is the first time that Mr. Trump has not led all candidates since The Times and CBS News began measuring presidential preferences at the end of July.
No other candidate comes close to Mr. Carson and Mr. Trump. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida received 8 percent while former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, are each the choice of 7 percent of Republican primary voters.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/27/poll-watch-ben-carson-edges-ahead-nationally-in-timescbs-news-poll/
underpants
(182,736 posts)What? Where's Gilmore?!?!
redwitch
(14,944 posts)As do all the people who want to vote for him. I do not want this lunatic anywhere near the nuclear launch codes.
atreides1
(16,070 posts)Let's put it where it really belongs...a large group that hates any form of liberal or even progressive thoughts and speech, a group filled with religious fanatics who want to force their beliefs on everyone else, a group of bigots that have nothing but contempt for the US Constitution, except when it applies to them!
Face the facts we have two Hitler lite cults...one headed by Trump and the other headed by Carson!
Giving drugs to these people would be the right thing to do...
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)The guy talks like Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgmont High, and nothing he says makes any logical sense whatsoever.
murielm99
(30,730 posts)There is just something off about the guy. Is that why he retired from medicine? How could he do brain surgery?
Vinca
(50,255 posts)MissKat
(218 posts)To understand Carson look at his church.
The advent is the advent of the End of Times. It's a doomsday cult and that gives you insight into the man. He has said his god wants him to run.
Carson doesn't need medication, he's full of the Word.
Although, the constant eye-closing, the mumbling, the peculiar thought pattern (like comparing everything to Hitler or slavery), it does seem to show a man loaded on 'ludes'.
murielm99
(30,730 posts)What they believe is no more outlandish than some other Christian denominations.
I don't care much for anyone who says God told them to run. But I know Adventists. They are not crazy cultists.
trusty elf
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BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)It seems, to use an old-fashioned term, that he has had a "nervous breakdown" and is operating in some sort of uninhibited zombie fashion, with little or no control of his thought processes. I.e., in this suggestible state, he is acting on all the bullshit that has been fed to him over the decades and has been well compensated and rewarded for doing so. I expect the intensity of his original line of work, kept the "demons" away and now that he doesn't have that, the same intensity has been shifted to this new venture.
trusty elf
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NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)The election would likely be called as soon the central time zone polls had closed. (Or would that be mathematically possible? Are there actually enough electoral college votes east of the mountain time zone?)
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)The things he says are so off the wall.
I do think he will be easier to beat than Trump .
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Still believe it won't be Trump nor Carson nor Rubio.
Darb
(2,807 posts)This is just the twisting and writhing death roll of the kook portion of the Repube base. They are insane, period, full stop. Plus TPTB like having the black man in front for a while so they can say they are not racist. Which they are. Carson will no more get the nom than I will.
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)more and then Bush will be it for the nomination.
Now if Bush can win the Presidency, I don't know. Seems like the Republicans are heavily into using every devious method possible to see the vote is going their way. So it will be really tough going for any Democratic candidate to win.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)as Stephanie Miller just said, we better search the crawlspace in his house before this goes much further.