{"id":23128,"date":"2015-10-28T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23128"},"modified":"2015-10-28T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T14:43:15","slug":"carson-because-were-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23128","title":{"rendered":"Carson! Because we're idiots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/carson-thrives-because-not-spite-bizarre-rhetoric\">The poll<\/a> told GOP respondents, \u201cI\u2019m going to mention some things people have said about Ben Carson. Regardless of whether you support him for president, please tell me for each if this is something that you find very attractive about him, mostly attractive, mostly unattractive, or very unattractive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If we combine \u201cvery attractive\u201d and \u201cmostly attractive\u201d responses, these are Iowa Republicans\u2019 positive feelings about Ben Carson:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cHe is not a career politician\u201d: 85%\n<li>\u201cHe has no experience in foreign policy\u201d: 42%\n<li>\u201cHe was highly successful as a neurosurgeon\u201d: 88%\n<li>\u201cHe has said the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is the worst thing since slavery\u201d: 81%\n<li>\u201dHe has an inspirational personal story\u201d: 85%\n<li>\u201cHe has raised questions about whether a Muslim should ever be president of the United States\u201d: 73%\n<li>\u201cHe has said he would be guided by his faith in God\u201d: 89%\n<li>\u201cHe has said that Hitler might not have been as successful if the people had been armed\u201d: 77%\n<li>\u201cHe approaches issues with common sense\u201d: 96%\n<li>\u201cHe has conducted research on tissue from aborted fetuses\u201d: 31%\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poll told GOP respondents, \u201cI\u2019m going to mention some things people have said about Ben Carson. Regardless of whether you support him for president, please tell me for each if this is something that you find very attractive about him, mostly attractive, mostly unattractive, or very unattractive.\u201d If we combine \u201cvery attractive\u201d and \u201cmostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23130,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23128\/revisions\/23130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}