Your new Republican leader in Iowa.
Once might be a fluke, but twice starts to look like a pattern: A second poll in two days shows Ben Carson taking the lead from Donald Trump in what's typically known as the crucial early state of Iowa. On Thursday,
Quinnipiac showed Carson leading, with 28 percent to Trump's 20 percent. Friday's
Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll has similar results, putting Carson up by nine points:
... Carson leads with 28 percent of likely Republican caucus goers, followed by Trump at 19 percent. Carson is up 10 percentage points since August, when the poll was last taken, while Trump has dropped 4 percentage points.
The two front-runners are followed by Ted Cruz at 10 percent, Marco Rubio at nine percent, and Jeb Bush and Rand Paul tied at five percent. Cruz and Carson should be happy with this result. Trump—not so much, though presumably he learned his lesson Thursday about tweets insulting Iowa voters.
Take a moment to appreciate that Iowa Republicans have gone from Donald Trump to Ben Carson.