Carson was sure to take polls of the molecule both before and after the reaction to understand what was going on in the structure. Comparing the polls of 18 and 23, "A lot of things happened," Carson told CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger during a campaign swing in South Carolina. "Hydrogenation happened, and deprotection happened. Plus you had, I think, an almost uninterpretable HNMR graph". Although the NMRs were difficult to decipher, Carson has a lot of experience rationalizing extreme fluctuations in polls before and after certain events.
However, just like Carson's tax plans, the HNMR provided for Molecules 18 and 23 do not add up.
