Controversies help boost Carson’s standing in latest polling
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/controversies-help-boost-carsons-standing-latest-polling
For much of the presidential race this far, one of the more common questions surrounding Ben Carson was, Is this guy as right-wing as he seems? But more recently, as the Republican candidates behavior has become more erratic and alarming, the question has suddenly become, Is this guy OK?
Consider last week, for example. Over the course of just five days, Americans learned that Carson believes bullet-riddled bodies are preferable to new gun laws; he questioned why victims of a mass-shooting werent as brave as he imagines himself to be; he told a bizarre story about a robbery he claims to have witnessed; and the GOP topped it off with a fight with the Anti-Defamation League over his Holocaust confusion. Carson then came up with a bizarre theory about Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei, Mahmoud Abbas, and Vladamir Putin going to college together, which never happened....
More recently, however, its Carson who consistently finds himself in the news for making comments that raise questions about his stability and connection to reality. And yet, the more unhinged Carson appears, the greater his support in national Republican polling.
It says something important about the perspective of GOP voters, and just as importantly, it creates an incentive for Republican presidential candidates to be as reckless and irresponsible as humanly possible.