Ben Carson is relying on a time-honored Iowa strategy — and it’s working

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https://www.yahoo.com/politics/ben-carson-is-relying-on-a-time-honored-iowa-128788818625.html

Carson’s speech wasn’t packed with the red-meat rhetoric that many of his rivals talked up during their soapbox remarks. In fact, like most of his appearances, he gave a stump speech that barely mentioned any policy at all — aside from a call for people to “talk more about God” and their faith in political discourse. But the crowd loved it, whooping and hollering at times, so loud that it drowned out Carson, who, even using a microphone, often speaks so softly that he’s difficult to hear.

Indeed, for most of the summer, Carson’s campaign had seemed drowned out — first by rivals who were better known and then by Donald Trump, whose brash, take-no-prisoners way of campaigning quickly shot him to the top of the early GOP primary polls, shocking just about everybody....

But in what has been deemed the “Summer of Trump,” perhaps most surprising has been Carson’s quiet, gradual rise in the polls, in spite of the fact that he’s campaigning on very little beyond his own personal story and his position as a political outsider willing to shake up Washington.

A CNN/ORC national poll of likely GOP primary voters released Thursday found Carson in second place in the Republican nomination race behind Trump and with a double-digit lead over rivals, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. According to the poll, 19 percent of Republicans are backing Carson — a 10-point surge since early August — compared to 30 percent for Trump and 9 percent for Bush.

I'm quite surprised that fully one-fifth of the repuke base would consider voting for someone of Carson's, um, medical background.

[Massacure]

1. Ben Carson is probably the smartest Republic in the race

Now granted, the bar for most intelligent is set pretty low and most of Ben Carson's social views are still ass backward. You have to give credit where credit is due though, and he did manage to get through medical school and become a very gifted surgeon.