Carson is in the lead on the Republican side, beating Trump for the first time. I like Carson, a former neural surgeon, I like how he already has his plans and policies laid out so that when reporters ask, he can tell them what he wants to do as president, meanwhile the political types are hedging and evading the questions.
But he isn't much of a politician and you need to be a politician to take on the most political job in the world.
Look at the Hillary and Bernie charts! You can't say the debates are meaningless after you look at that.