BEN CARSON WINS ! BEN CARSON WINS ! BEN CARSON WINS !…
It was last month, amid the failing direct GOPe attacks against Donald Trump, when we predicted Wall Street/Team Jeb’s approach would shift to promoting Ben Carson instead. We even shared their targeted date to peak Carson would be the CNN debate. All media (Madison Ave., Hollywood, Park Row) would be called in for the assist.
Iowa poll okay for Trump, if right, but terrific for Ben Carson, also topping favorability by very big margin.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) August 31, 2015
Well?….. After two weeks of continual pro-Carson push, tonight -coincidentally- SURPRISE !! Maryland announces Ben Carson wins the “month long” straw Poll:

Maryland – The Maryland Republican Party released on Tuesday its results from its month-long presidential straw poll.
The poll was conducted over the last month and surveyed nearly 1,000 Maryland residents through direct mail, social media and at the Maryland State Fair. Total – 930 respondents:
Ben Carson – 296 (31.8 percent)
Donald Trump – 241 (25.9 percent)
Marco Rubio – 65 (6.9 percent)
Ted Cruz – 64 (6.8 percent)
Jeb Bush – 55 (5.9 percent)
Scott Walker – 44 (4.7 percent)
Carly Fiorina – 43 (4.6 percent)
John Kasich – 37 (3.9 percent)
Rand Paul – 31 (3.3 percent)
Chris Christie – 26 (2.7 percent)
Rick Santorum – 9 (Less than 1 percent)
Mike Huckabee – 8 (Less than 1 percent)
Rick Perry – 5 (Less than 1 percent)
Bobby Jindal – 3 (Less than 1 percent)
Lyndsay Graham – 3 (Less than 1 percent)
George Pataki – 2 (Less than 1 percent)
Jim Gilmore – 0

JUST IN: Carson wins Maryland GOP's straw poll http://t.co/26E3s10fzR pic.twitter.com/CgR4BnVZMQ
— The Hill (@thehill) September 15, 2015
PREVIOUSLY – Ben Carson essentially became a useful and necessary tool for Team Jeb – as we currently see. However, his own community doesn’t even know the guy, yet he’s running for President:
FEBRUARY 2015 – In the rural community outside of Baltimore where Carson has lived for nearly 15 years, many of his neighbors claim to have never spoken to him. Some didn’t even know if Carson and his family still live in their seven-bedroom, $1.7-million house set on a 35-acre piece of pastureland between cornfields. They know, vaguely, that he bought another home in Florida (West Palm Beach) for retirement.
“I don’t even think he could win if he was running for mayor out here,” said one of his neighbors, who lives along the winding gravel road that leads to his palatial estate. “No one out here knows him. He tends to insulate himself.” (link)
This level of ease regarding opposition research on Carson simply means that Team Jeb can swat him away faster than you can say ‘Hermain Cain’ as soon as his usefulness has expired.
Ben Carson is the typical prototype for an RNC/GOPe useful political tool; the kind of candidate that makes Karl Rove giddy as he thinks about dropping opposition info to media later on. (more)

