Carson trounces GOP field in book sales

There’s at least one area where 2016 GOP candidate Ben Carson is dominating the rest of the Republican field: book sales.

Carson’s One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America’s Future has sold 362,813 hardcover copies to date, BuzzFeed reported Tuesday, citing numbers from bookstore sales tracking service Nielsen BookScan.

{mosads}For comparison, the combined sales since 2010 of 15 books from fellow Republican candidates totals 252,177, BuzzFeed says.

The retired Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon has written several books, but his latest, out in May 2014, came when he become a conservative star after criticizing President Obama during the annual prayer breakfast the previous year.

The highest book sales of other candidates include former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s January book God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy (65,939 hardcover copies sold); Sen. Marco Rubio’s (Fla.) 2012 memoir An American Son (36,786); and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s 2010 book Fed Up! (27,264), according to the Nielson statistics.

Carson has demonstrated strong charisma and is popular among conservatives. He currently stands third overall in the RealClearPolitics polling average, though few in Washington think he has a real chance at winning the GOP nomination.