(CNN)By Ben Carson's telling, he may be the most misunderstood candidate in the 2016 presidential race. The retired pediatric neurosurgeon has shrugged off a series of controversies over the past two weeks by claiming that the press simply misunderstood what he said -- or by accusing reporters of deliberately miscasting his remarks. In a presidential race where the old tropes of politics don't seem to apply, Carson's quirky statements and the lack of clarity about his positions on key issues didn't seem to have harmed his candidacy as he cruised atop the GOP polls, vying for first place with Donald Trump. Targeting the "liberal media" and the "secular progressive movement" was a strategy...
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