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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"They wanted the campaign gathering to appear full, but..."
DES MOINES As Ben Carson got ready for a television interview beside the pulpit of a Pentecostal church this week, campaign aides asked his supporters to move across the room and sit in the empty pews behind him.
They wanted the campaign gathering to appear full, but few of the voters who had turned up for the event could hear the soft-spoken Mr. Carson explain how he is on the upswing in Iowa. Some wandered away in disappointment.
I thought he would be louder, said Jody Kunanan, who drove from Ankeny, Iowa, to see Mr. Carson. Still, she remains hopeful that he will somehow pull out a victory in the state next week despite polling in the single digits.
Such is life for the Carson campaign these days, where disappointment and frustration have overtaken last years sense of optimism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/us/politics/ben-carsons-campaign-beset-with-frustration-disappointment-and-grief.html
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"They wanted the campaign gathering to appear full, but..." (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2016
OP
That's his own fault for thinking that having been a successful surgeon
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2016
#3
Well that's all true. I still think it's a shame. But he is an adult and made his choices.
yeoman6987
Jan 2016
#4
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,606 posts)1. Somebody found a photo of him with his eyes open!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)2. Terrible picture
I am so mad that he ran for president. He is a respected surgeon who earned a good reputation from many. Now it's all ruined. Ugh!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,606 posts)3. That's his own fault for thinking that having been a successful surgeon
qualifies him to be president. He has demonstrated his ignorance (or lunacy) about the workings of government, so all I can say is, too bad for him.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)4. Well that's all true. I still think it's a shame. But he is an adult and made his choices.
panader0
(25,816 posts)6. Would you let that guy operate on you?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)7. Yes I would.
Z_California
(650 posts)5. It's not a campaign!
It's a book tour.