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Check the latest polls and see neurosurgeon-turned-wannabe-president Ben Carson surf on a sudden wave of black support. Not that black people are voting anytime soon in the Republican primary.
But as Theodore R. Johnson III aptly points out on The Root, Carson’s black ratings look better in fictional, general-election matchups than those of his fellow GOP contenders: from a 19 percent black voting bloc against Democrat Hillary Clinton in a recent Quinnipiac poll to a 32 percent combined-minority vote for Carson vs. Clinton in a McClatchy poll. YouGov actually gives him (pdf) a 42 percent “very favorable and somewhat favorable” nod from African Americans, including 23 percent who prefer him as the GOP nominee.
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http://www.theroot.com/articles/pol...oter_should_not_be_voting_for_ben_carson.html