The second danger is that voters will actually respond poorly to Carson’s lack of foreign-policy knowledge. That’s not impossible, but it would be unusual. Carson’s appeal has long been built on the fact that he’s a commonsense outsider, not a policy expert. Besides, when has a candidate really been penalized for lacking international acumen? Herman Cain was mocked for joking about “Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan,” but it was a sex scandal and not his flippancy about Central Asia that brought down his candidacy. Scott Walker was mocked for saying his battles with unions in Wisconsin qualified him to beat ISIS, but it was fundraising, strategy doubts, and domestic-policy flip-flops that knocked him out of the race.
Americans Who Have Not Read a Single Article About Syria Strongly Support Bombing It
According to the poll, released on Tuesday, the bombing campaign got a thumbs-up from people who had no information about Syria’s civil war, including its duration, the parties involved, and what a Sunni is.
Additionally, the air strikes garnered enthusiastic support from people who could not correctly identify the President of Syria, tell what the acronym ISISstands for, or locate Syria on a map.
.. “People who have not read a single article about Syria are a key constituency because they represent an overwhelming majority of Americans,” he said. “And when you asked the follow-up question of whether they intended to read an article about Syria in the future, their answer was a resounding no.”