precipitously and he probably has good reason. looks like this entire race is leaving him. these process stories are never good for candidates. you never want to be in the press talking about campaign shakeups and not talking about your issue. he s trapped in a spiral here. i was reading the blog red state this morning and it brought up the spectre of ben carson only being in this race to make money. i don t know if it s true or not but the spectre is now there in conservative circles. this is something talked about because the fund-raising great deal of money, it doesn t have a lot of cash on hand because of consultants he s using to produce that money are very expensive. so people have been worried about that for a long time.