But it's probably no coincidence that his popularity began to erode in the weeks after the ISIS attacks in Paris, and then the mass shooting in San Bernardino, which pushed the focus of the campaign toward foreign policy, which was never Carson's strength.
Security experts say tight security along the disputed frontier through Kashmir has pushed the focus of militant activity south toward softer targets in Punjab.
Pushing the focus back onto attainment leads us into the cul-de-sac of the emotive debate about 'lowering standards'.
From the start, Mr. Obama's campaign aides acknowledged that they were attempting something of a Houdini act in seeking to push the focus of the election "Forward," as their slogan goes, beyond the "now" that is harder to pretty up.
The forces of hype had wanted to push the focus on to his owner, Sir Alex Ferguson; yet what was striking was that the crowd was not, on the whole, very interested in any of that.
Groups of 10 or more will find their rooms swathed in disco lights and luminous paint, and with booming sound systems, while smaller rooms are standard fare – leather benches and plain walls push the focus towards the central television.
As funding cuts push the focus of creativity in housing from design to financing, architects and housing professionals are warning that architectural innovation and quality must not be sacrificed if landlords are to creating stable communities as well as homes.
But the immediate goal of such intimidation is to persuade the West to drop sanctions, which would be presented at home as a huge victory.Against this background a resolution of the Ukrainian crisis and de-escalation of tensions with the West would push the focus back onto economic and social problems, lowering Mr Putin's ratings, just as happened after Russia's war in Georgia in 2008.
This pushes the focus onto the Sustainability argument.
An evolutionary viewpoint pushes the focus out farther to look at long-term ecological relationships, including symbiotic bacteria, parasites and pathogens, historical lifestyles, and the genetics of populations.
Maersk successfully completed the first-ever drone delivery to a tanker off the coast of Denmark this year, pushing the focus to reducing costs for shipping, inspections and delivery.
