Monday, May 4, 2015

Politico: Ben Carson's home-field disadvantage

By Katie Glueck, May 4, 2015, Politico



DETROIT — Ben Carson was always going to be a long-shot for the GOP presidential nomination. And one of the many hurdles he faces was front and center Monday when the prominent neurosurgeon announced his candidacy in the city where he was born.

Here in Carson’s hometown, there are Ben Carson Reading Rooms and the Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine. The local African-American history museum, the biggest in the country, features him on “this day in history” acknowledgements, sharing space with famed educator Booker T. Washington and popular actress Jada Pinkett-Smith.

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