Real Clear Politics (RCP) keeps polling averages to generate rankings in the presidential primary. For the past 107 days, real estate mogul Donald Trump held the number one spot.
That is no longer true. For the first time, neurosurgeon Ben Carson is leading the contest in poll averages:
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Trump isn't taking the news very well, alternately blaming pundits for their choices of polls and retweeting people insulting Ben Carson.
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