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Showing posts with label Ben Carson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Carson. Show all posts
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
Carson? How crazy can we get?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-polls_562e4fa0e4b0443bb56499bf
Ben Carson Leading In Iowa, New Surveys Find
Six polls in a row now show the former neurosurgeon tied with or ahead of Donald Trump.
Ariel Edwards-Levy | Staff Reporter and Polling Director, The Huffington Post
Posted: 10/26/2015
New surveys show Ben Carson, pictured, leading Donald Trump in Iowa.
Ben Carson leads the Republican primary field in Iowa, according to two surveys released Monday, giving the former neurosurgeon a tie or a win over Donald Trump in all six polls of the state released this month.
Carson took 32 percent to Trump's 18 percent in a Monmouth University poll of likely Republican voters, with Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) trailing at 10 percent each. In a separate Loras College poll, Carson took 31 percent to Trump's 19 percent, with Rubio again taking third.
In both cases, the change owes somewhat more to Carson's rising numbers than Trump's falling ones: Monmouth found Carson up 9 points and Trump down 6 from August, while Loras found Carson gaining 14 points and Trump falling by 6 over the same time period.
Earlier polls from Quinnipiac and Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register also showed Carson ahead -- by 8 and 9 points, respectively -- as did a survey conducted for Club for Growth Action, a super PAC that has run a $1 million ad campaign in Iowa opposing Trump, and since taken credit for his declining numbers.
Trump, who's fared better in polls conducted using automated phone calls or the Internet than on those making use of live interviewers, posted stronger numbers in an online CBS/YouGov poll released this weekend, which showed him tied with Carson at 27 percent.
HuffPost Pollster's average, incorporating all publicly available surveys, currently gives Carson nearly 29 percent to Trump's 20 percent in Iowa.
The latest polls don't predict a victory in the state for Carson next February any more than early surveys guaranteed a win for Trump, who still leads nationally. At this point in 2011, pizza magnate Herman Cain was at the apex of his brief surge in Iowa over eventual nominee Mitt Romney.
“Trump’s support has eroded in a number of key areas, with the beneficiary being another outside candidate. One question is how secure Carson’s newfound support really is," Monmouth poll director Patrick Murray said in a statement, noting that less than a fifth of likely caucusgoers say they've completely made up their minds.
But Carson's rise has thrown Trump -- who's perhaps more fond than any other candidate of citing his own poll numbers -- back into the role of testy underdog.
“We have a breaking story: Donald Trump has fallen to second place behind Ben Carson,” Trump told supporters last week at a Florida campaign stop. “We informed Ben, but he was sleeping.” (Carson responded over the weekend that his "energy levels are perfectly fine.")
The Monmouth University poll surveyed 400 likely Republican voters in Iowa between Oct. 22 and Oct. 25, while the Loras poll surveyed 500 likely Republican voters in Iowa between Oct. 19 and Oct. 22. Both used live interviewers to reach cell phones and landlines.
Fact Checking Ben Carson on Nazis, Jews, and Guns
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/26/ben-carson/fact-checking-ben-carson-nazi-guns/
Ben Carson Assures Conservatives His Campus Speech Monitoring Would Only Target Liberals
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-has-odd-plan-the-dept-education
Ben Carson compares homosexuality to murder
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/01/ben_carson_compares_homosexuality_to_muder/
Ben Carson's prescription for health care: Abolish Medicare
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/ben-carson-medicare-medicaid-215055
Ben Carson: 'Hitler' Could Happen Here
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/30/politics/ben-carson-nazi-germany-hitler/index.html
Lindsey Graham says he's shocked he's losing to 'crazy as hell' Trump and Ben Carson
Six polls in a row now show the former neurosurgeon tied with or ahead of Donald Trump.
Ariel Edwards-Levy | Staff Reporter and Polling Director, The Huffington Post
Posted: 10/26/2015
New surveys show Ben Carson, pictured, leading Donald Trump in Iowa. Ben Carson leads the Republican primary field in Iowa, according to two surveys released Monday, giving the former neurosurgeon a tie or a win over Donald Trump in all six polls of the state released this month.
Carson took 32 percent to Trump's 18 percent in a Monmouth University poll of likely Republican voters, with Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) trailing at 10 percent each. In a separate Loras College poll, Carson took 31 percent to Trump's 19 percent, with Rubio again taking third.
In both cases, the change owes somewhat more to Carson's rising numbers than Trump's falling ones: Monmouth found Carson up 9 points and Trump down 6 from August, while Loras found Carson gaining 14 points and Trump falling by 6 over the same time period.
Earlier polls from Quinnipiac and Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register also showed Carson ahead -- by 8 and 9 points, respectively -- as did a survey conducted for Club for Growth Action, a super PAC that has run a $1 million ad campaign in Iowa opposing Trump, and since taken credit for his declining numbers.
Trump, who's fared better in polls conducted using automated phone calls or the Internet than on those making use of live interviewers, posted stronger numbers in an online CBS/YouGov poll released this weekend, which showed him tied with Carson at 27 percent.
HuffPost Pollster's average, incorporating all publicly available surveys, currently gives Carson nearly 29 percent to Trump's 20 percent in Iowa.
The latest polls don't predict a victory in the state for Carson next February any more than early surveys guaranteed a win for Trump, who still leads nationally. At this point in 2011, pizza magnate Herman Cain was at the apex of his brief surge in Iowa over eventual nominee Mitt Romney.
“Trump’s support has eroded in a number of key areas, with the beneficiary being another outside candidate. One question is how secure Carson’s newfound support really is," Monmouth poll director Patrick Murray said in a statement, noting that less than a fifth of likely caucusgoers say they've completely made up their minds.
But Carson's rise has thrown Trump -- who's perhaps more fond than any other candidate of citing his own poll numbers -- back into the role of testy underdog.
“We have a breaking story: Donald Trump has fallen to second place behind Ben Carson,” Trump told supporters last week at a Florida campaign stop. “We informed Ben, but he was sleeping.” (Carson responded over the weekend that his "energy levels are perfectly fine.")
The Monmouth University poll surveyed 400 likely Republican voters in Iowa between Oct. 22 and Oct. 25, while the Loras poll surveyed 500 likely Republican voters in Iowa between Oct. 19 and Oct. 22. Both used live interviewers to reach cell phones and landlines.
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Fact Checking Ben Carson on Nazis, Jews, and Guns
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/26/ben-carson/fact-checking-ben-carson-nazi-guns/
Ben Carson Assures Conservatives His Campus Speech Monitoring Would Only Target Liberals
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-has-odd-plan-the-dept-education
Ben Carson compares homosexuality to murder
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/01/ben_carson_compares_homosexuality_to_muder/
Ben Carson's prescription for health care: Abolish Medicare
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/ben-carson-medicare-medicaid-215055
Ben Carson: 'Hitler' Could Happen Here
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/30/politics/ben-carson-nazi-germany-hitler/index.html
Lindsey Graham says he's shocked he's losing to 'crazy as hell' Trump and Ben Carson
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Last thing I'm ever going to post on Ben Carson because he's an idiot
The "Complex News" commentator has some funny and smart things to say...
Friday, March 6, 2015
Dan Savage challenges Ben Carson
‘Suck my dick’ and see if that makes you gay
Arturo Garcia
06 Mar 2015
Gay rights activist Dan Savage called Ben Carson out in his syndicated column this week, challenging the prospective GOP presidential candidate to put his money where his mouth was — so to speak — regarding his views on homosexuality.
“If being gay is a choice, prove it,” Savage wrote. “Choose it. Choose to be gay yourself. Show America how that’s done, Ben, show us how a man can choose to be gay. Suck my dick. Name the time and the place and I’ll bring my dick and a camera crew and you can suck me off and win the argument.”
Carson has been heavily criticized since telling CNN on Wednesday that homosexuality is a choice because “a lot of people who go into prison, go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay.”
After initially trying to blame CNN for the remark and vowing not to discuss marriage equality anymore, Carson apologized in a statement.
“I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation,” he said. “I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive.”
Savage slammed Carson and other religious conservatives for not only insisting that homosexuality is a choice, but pushing others to choose to convert to their beliefs. He also noted that a person’s chosen religion, as well as their choice of marital status or military service, is protected under the law.
“No one has to serve in the military and no one has to get married — people have control over whether they marry or enlist, right?” he argued. “And yet, like religious belief, both are covered by civil rights statutes and people like Ben Carson don’t object. The only time you hear that a trait has to be immutable in order to qualify for civil rights protections is when they talk about the gay.”
“If being gay is a choice, prove it,” Savage wrote. “Choose it. Choose to be gay yourself. Show America how that’s done, Ben, show us how a man can choose to be gay. Suck my dick. Name the time and the place and I’ll bring my dick and a camera crew and you can suck me off and win the argument.”
Carson has been heavily criticized since telling CNN on Wednesday that homosexuality is a choice because “a lot of people who go into prison, go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay.”
After initially trying to blame CNN for the remark and vowing not to discuss marriage equality anymore, Carson apologized in a statement.
“I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation,” he said. “I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive.”
Savage slammed Carson and other religious conservatives for not only insisting that homosexuality is a choice, but pushing others to choose to convert to their beliefs. He also noted that a person’s chosen religion, as well as their choice of marital status or military service, is protected under the law.
“No one has to serve in the military and no one has to get married — people have control over whether they marry or enlist, right?” he argued. “And yet, like religious belief, both are covered by civil rights statutes and people like Ben Carson don’t object. The only time you hear that a trait has to be immutable in order to qualify for civil rights protections is when they talk about the gay.”
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Monday, January 26, 2015
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any crazier
Ben Carson Says Anti-Gay Bakery Owners 'Might Put Poison' In Same-Sex Couple's Cakes
The Huffington Post | By Curtis M. Wong | Posted: 01/26/2015 11:57 am EST
GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson reportedly slammed lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates at a Jan. 24 press conference following his speech at Congressman Steve King's Iowa Freedom Summit.
Carson, a Fox News commentator and former Johns Hopkins University pediatric neurosurgeon, seemed to hint at a series of disputes that have erupted between same-sex couples hoping to tie the knot and bakeries and other wedding-related venues operated by opponents of same-sex marriage.
"What I have a problem with is when people try to force people to act against their beliefs because they say, 'They’re discriminating against me,’" he told reporters, according to The Hill. "So they can go right down the street and buy a cake, but no, let’s bring a suit against this person because I want them to make my cake even though they don’t believe in it."
He then added, "[That] is really not all that smart because they might put poison in that cake.”
Carson has been outspoken in regard to his opposition to same-sex marriage rights.
"Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are," he told Sean Hannity in 2012, as cited by Slate. "They don't get to change the definition."
He shared similar sentiments in his 2012 book, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great, noting that attempts to "redefine marriage" would bring about a "disastrous ending" for the U.S. that would mirror "the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire," according to Media Matters.
Interestingly, Carson may have been in the minority when it came to discussing same-sex marriage at the Iowa Freedom Summit this year. As The Huffington Post's Igor Bobic reported, the subject "remained conspicuously absent from the lips of many speakers who took the stage, demonstrating how dramatically politics around the issue has shifted in just a few years."
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