seems to be a mixed bag of opinions in your QUORA link
here's one -
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I usually do not do this but I have to ask how would this be relevant? Ben Carson was a good surgeon and is a bad head of HUD. Maybe what we want is the political experience. However he has worked as a teacher and carpenter.
remember the sound of crowd at the 2016 DNC when he accepted some delegates. even though it was already decided that it was going to go to HILLARY
haven't really heard that kind of sound for any candidate ever
thought there was going to be a coup and he was going to take the nomination