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For the Record: Poll dancing in our Bernie underwear

Brett McGinness ,  Joanna Allhands ,  Jessica Estepa   | Paste BN

The winners will be announced today – winners of the National Toy Hall of Fame election, that is. Hillary and Carly are pulling for American Girl dolls, Lindsey won’t shut up about little green army men, and Jeb just wants any game where we can start over from the beginning.

While we’re looking for all the game pieces, you guys should take a minute to follow the For the Record crew on Twitter (@jmestepa, @joannaallhands and @RGJBrettMcG) and tell all your friends to sign up for the For the Record e-newsletter. Now let’s play! (No, you can’t be the banker; Trump already called it.)

CANDIDATES ENGAGE IN ELABORATE POLL DANCE

It seemed like nothing major was happening for quite some time, but suddenly every candidate is gyrating wildly around the polls (guys, stop giggling, this is important stuff.) Donald Trump and Ben Carson are locked together at the top, with Marco Rubio slowly shimmying his way up (you in the back there, hush); meanwhile, Jeb Bush started out hot, but is slipping way, way down (seriously, what is so funny?) Meanwhile, looking over at the main stage, no one can tell if Hillary Clinton is on top of her rivals or down below. No doubt all candidates will use their poll positions to solicit funds from their … dammit, we’re not going to be able to talk about all the spin around these polls if you guys can’t settle down. Paste BN OnPolitics’ Donovan Slack has the numbers.

BUT FRENCH WORK WEEKS ARE WHY WE BECAME JOURNALISTS

During the last GOP debate, Jeb Bush threw out a zinger to Marco Rubio on his Senate attendance record, asking him if his spotty Senate attendance record was due to his “French work week” schedule – which might have seemed like a safe joke to make, seeing as how he’s not running for prime minister of France. But Wednesday, he told reporters, “I really did a disservice to the French.” We say whoa, don’t be too hasty to criticize French work schedules in the first place. We read “The Sun Also Rises” in high school, and it seemed like Parisian journalist Jake Barnes was putting in maybe 15 minutes of work every month. We can get behind that. Paste BN OnPolitics’ David Jackson has the details.

SET RECORDING > “THE VIEW” > FRI 11/06

Carly Fiorina’s psyche must be made out of Kevlar and hockey players. First, she endured Trump’s “look at that face” comment in a September Rolling Stone article; then last week, the hosts of The View said Fiorina looked “demented” and “like a Halloween mask.”  The View’s Whoopi Goldberg went with the “hey now, these are just observations” defense, which … um, OK, sure. Goldberg also announced that Fiorina would return to the show this Friday. If we were Fiorina, we’d be having a good car cry session right now – instead, she’s using the incident to raise campaign funds. Donovan Slack breaks it down.

CHECKING IN WITH THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRACKET

But enough about Team Elephant. What’s going on inside the very, veryrapidlyshrinking Democratic field? Hillary Clinton met privately this week with several mothers of black men killed by police officers, and also railed against GOP candidates’ plans to privatize Social Security and Medicare. The Bernie Sanders campaign announced plans to open offices in fourth-in-the-nation Nevada. Martin O’Malley locked up endorsements from the mayors of Las Vegas and Milwaukee, and also became the first Democrat to file for New Hampshire’s presidential primary. O’Malley says Democratic voters don’t want “old names or polarizing figures,” despite the fact that he’s trailing well behind both Old Name and Polarizing Figure in the latest polls. All three remaining candidates will attend an MSNBC forum tomorrow night.

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TRUMP NEGOTIATING TO SHORTEN SNL TO 30 MINUTES

One more thing to add to our DVR recordings: Donald Trump is appearing on SNL this Saturday. Check out the promos here, and read about the mysteriously deleted promo here.

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