According to abcnews, the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore and the only black candidate in the 2016 presidential election, Dr. Ben Carson, is currently top three nationally after the first Republican debate.
Many of you might have expected Jeb Bush or Scott Walker, but Dr. Carson is "is polling at 12 percent in a national Fox News poll out Sunday and 14 percent in a CNN Iowa poll out last week -- good enough for second place in the GOP field behind only Donald Trump," according to abcnews.
Many might have asked why it is that Carson is slowly rising to the top tier. The said candidate is not seen as the most eloquent in the Republican field. If money and experience would be gauge, Carson does not have the most of both. Instead what Dr. Carson does have according to the report, is he embodies a compelling personal story. He has on his title no richness but an experience of a troubled young man who fought obstacles then becoming a neurosurgeon and the youngest physician to ever head a major division at Johns Hopkins. Needless to say that he also has the record of being the first doctor to successfully separate Siamese twins joined at the head. And these experiences and other authentic human experience is his way of reaching out to all Americans through his "authenticity and speaking style." Even Press Secretary Deana Bass told ABC News that;
"I think that people are just really attracted to him because he's authentic. He plants his feet and he tells the truth. It doesn't matter if he's on the Southside of Chicago, in the middle of Iowa with farmers. It doesn't matter where he is: he tells the same truth everywhere."
Perhaps a testimony on how his authenticity affects others is how he managed to draw an estimated crowd of 12,000 people in Arizona. The anticipated number of more or less 2000 people grew into more than 10,000 audiences, which lead them to relocate the venue into a much larger area.
