memeorandum: Ben Carson Takes National Lead Over Donald Trump In NYT/CBS Poll (John Nolte/BREITBART.COM)

11:55 AM ET, October 27, 2015

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Poll Watch: Ben Carson Edges Ahead Nationally in Times/CBS News Poll — Ben Carson has taken a narrow lead nationally in the Republican presidential campaign, dislodging Donald J. Trump from the top spot for the first time in months, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Tuesday.

CBS News:

CBS/NYT Poll: Ben Carson edges out Donald Trump — Ben Carson has surpassed Donald Trump and now narrowly leads the Republican field in the race for the nomination in the latest national CBS News/New York Times Poll. — Twenty-six percent of Republican primary voters back Carson, giving him a four-point edge over Trump (22 percent).

Discussion: RedState, Weekly Standard, Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo, Daily Mail, Fox News, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Taylor Marsh, Independent Journal, Scared Monkeys, Loras College, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, CBS New York and Washington Post

Ryan Struyk / ABC News:

Ben Carson Erases Donald Trump's National Lead In New Poll — Monday it was Iowa. Now it's nationwide. — Just a day after Ben Carson blew open a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in the state of Iowa in a new Monmouth University poll, a new poll shows the New York real estate mogul's national advantage is now essentially gone.

Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg.com news, Patterico's Pontifications and The Hill

Alex Griswold / Mediaite:

Donald Trump Explains Drop in Polls: They're ‘Not Very Scientific’ — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump explained on MSNBC's Morning Joe that the reason rival Ben Carson had surpassed him in recent polls was because they weren't “scientific.” — “I want to ask about once and for all your relationship with polls.

Discussion: New York Times and Independent Journal

John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
Ben Carson Takes National Lead Over Donald Trump In NYT/CBS Poll

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and RedState

Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Ben Carson Pulls Ahead Of Donald Trump

Discussion: Doug Ross and AMERICAblog News

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
3 sentences that explain just how clueless establishment Republicans are about 2016

Discussion: Vox Popoli, New York Times, The PJ Tatler and Bloomberg View

Jake Sherman / Politico:

Paul Ryan blasts Boehner over budget deal — Rep. Paul Ryan blasted Speaker John Boehner, Senate leadership and the White House for cutting a budget and debt ceiling deal in secret and without input from lawmakers. "I think the process stinks," the presumptive speaker said …

Discussion: Jamie Dupree, Booman Tribune, The Daily Signal and neo-neocon

Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:

Conservatives already trashing new budget deal — The ink isn't even dry on a tentative two-year budget agreement, but conservatives in Congress are already pouncing. GOP leaders from both ends of the Capitol met privately with their rank-and-file Monday evening to outline …

Discussion: The Hill, NBC News, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The Week, Vox, The Daily Signal, Political Wire, ABC News, CNN, New York Times, PoliticusUSA, Bloomberg Business, AMERICAblog News and Talking Points Memo

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

Paul Ryan On Budget Deliberations: ‘I Think The Process Stinks’ — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — who is expected to be elected Speaker of the House later this week — trashed the process by which congressional leaders cobbled the big fiscal budget deal that will raise the debt ceiling and fund the government for two years.

Discussion: Political Wire

Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:

Congressional leaders, White House reach two-year budget deal — House Republican leaders introduced legislation just before midnight on Monday, finalizing a two-year budget agreement between Congressional leaders and the White House. The introduction sets up a vote as early as Wednesday …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Roll Call, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Political Insider blog and TaxVox

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: A temporary outbreak of sanity in Washington

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Bloomberg Business, Outside the Beltway, The Huffington Post, American Prospect and The Hill

Jeremy Turnage / WIS-TV:

Video shows confrontation between Spring Valley student and school resource officer — Spring Valley High School officials and Richland County sheriff's deputies are investigating after a video supposedly taken at the high school shows a confrontation between a female student and the school's resource officer.

Discussion: Daily Mail, Independent Journal, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, NBC News, addictinginfo.org, FITSNews, Common Dreams, Raw Story, Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo, WTVR-TV, FOX31 Denver, The Week and Mediaite

Aaron Johnson / Heavy.com:

Deputy Ben Fields: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — Email Follow — Deputy Ben Fields. — A South Carolina sheriff's deputy is in hot water after a video was posted online Monday showing him violently throwing a high school student from her desk in a classroom.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Shakesville, Fox News Insider, Raw Story, addictinginfo.org, Fighting the Tides, No More Mister Nice Blog and FITSNews

WIS-TV:
Sheriff contacts FBI, DOJ to investigate incident involving deputy at Spring Valley High School

Discussion: WLTX-TV, New York Times, NPR and Ben Swann's Truth In Media

Loren Thomas / WLTX-TV:
Student Arrested Says She Was Standing Up for Classmate

Discussion: Washington Post, Prison Culture and Common Dreams

WLTX-TV:
Video Surfaces of Incident at Spring Valley High

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Towleroad and Washington Post

Melkorka Licea / New York Post:

FBI warns of anarchist plot to ambush cops on Halloween — The FBI released an alert Monday warning the NYPD and police departments nationwide of a potentially dangerous anarchist group that says it plans to ambush cops on Halloween. — The extremist group - known as the National Liberation Militia …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

CBS News:
FBI warns of possible “Halloween Revolt” by anarchists

Discussion: Daily Mail, Scared Monkeys and CBS New York

Candida Moss / The Daily Beast:

Exclusive: Feds Investigate Hobby Lobby Boss for Illicit Artifacts — One of America's most famously Christian businesses is amassing a vast collection of Biblical antiquities. The problem is some of them may have been looted from the Middle East. — In 2011, a shipment of somewhere between 200 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, AMERICAblog News, addictinginfo.org, Mediaite, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and Daily Mail

New York Times:

Political Lies About Police Brutality — Video recordings of police officers battering or even murdering unarmed black citizens have validated longstanding complaints by African-Americans and changed the way the country views the issue of police brutality. Police officers who might once …

Discussion: The Fiscal Times, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Slantpoint, NPR and Mediaite

Kyung Lah / CNN:
Shifting the blue line: Why a black woman is joining LAPD

Discussion: Truth Revolt and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Featured News:

REI Closing its Doors on Black Friday - Invites Nation to OptOutside — $2.2 billion specialty outdoor retailer will pay 12,000 employees to not work on November 27 — SEATTLE - In a letter addressed to its 5.5 million members, REI, the nation's largest consumer co-op and specialty outdoor retailer …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Post, EcoWatch, Forbes and CNNMoney

Diana Fakhouri / hillaryclinton.com:

Texts from Hillary and 4 other DIY Hillary Clinton costumes for Halloween — What's in Hillary's closet? A lifetime of looks. — From her simple beginnings in Park Ridge, Illinois, to her statement-making years as secretary of state, Hillary has always showcased her signature style.

Discussion: Instapundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Althouse, Daily Mail, Mediaite and OnPolitics

Jonathan Swan / The Hill:

Jeb: Brother's response to 9/11 was ‘awe-inspiring’ — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says his brother George W. Bush responded in an “awe-inspiring” way to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and suggests he would learn from his sibling's leadership if he wins the presidency.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Shakesville, Hullabaloo and Associated Press

David Jackson / OnPolitics:
Jeb Bush and George W. Bush chide Donald Trump

Discussion: RedState and addictinginfo.org

Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Takes Jab at Bernie Sanders's ‘Shouting’ Remark — Hillary Rodham Clinton has seized on remarks Senator Bernie Sanders made in the first Democratic debate that “all the shouting in the world” would not keep guns out of the wrong hands, suggesting that Mr. Sanders used those words because of Mrs. Clinton's gender.

Discussion: National Review, Washington Free Beacon, alicublog, NPR and Shakesville

J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:

Mother of Slain Benghazi American Explodes on Andrea Mitchell Reports: 'You Can't Understand!' — Last week we reported on a passionate CNN appearance by Patricia Smith, the mother of one of the American victims of the Benghazi attacks, Sean Smith. Today she made an appearance on MSNBC …

Discussion: Independent Journal, Power Line and The Daily Banter

Hugh Forrest / South by Southwest 2016 Music …:

Strong Community Management: Why We Canceled Two Panels For SXSW 2016 — On Monday, October 26, SXSW Interactive made the call to cancel two sessions for the 2016 event: “SavePoint: A Discussion on the Gaming Community” and “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games.”

Discussion: Re/code, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story, Engadget, Mashable, Guardian, The Verge and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »

Shane Goldmacher / Politico:

Ted Cruz's plan to pick off the competition — GLENWOOD, IOWA — It was a rainy morning when Ted Cruz arrived for the first of five stops on his Iowa schedule. He could barely squeeze in the door. So many people were stuffed in the three-room coffee shop that some opted to stand outside …

Discussion: Political Wire and Towleroad

Sarah Boseley / Guardian:

Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes - WHO — UN health body says bacon, sausages and ham are among top five most carcinogenic substances along with cigarettes, alcohol, asbestos and arsenic — Bacon, ham and sausages rank alongside cigarettes as a major cause of cancer …