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Monday Poll results: From debates to a Kansas City hotel

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Plenty of Monday Poll respondents said Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, should be the next candidate to drop out of the 2016 presidential race.
Plenty of Monday Poll respondents said Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, should be the next candidate to drop out of the 2016 presidential race. Matthew Staver Bloomberg

We asked questions that started with the GOP debates and moved to the future of a Kansas City downtown hotel. Here are results of the unscientific survey, based on about 300 responses.

1) The next Republican candidate to quit the presidential race should be:

Jeb Bush 20%

Chris Christie 10%

Carly Fiorina 6%

Mike Huckabee 36%

John Kasich 10%

Rand Paul 18%

2) President Barack Obama made the right decision to deploy troops on the ground in Syria to advise and assist rebel forces combating ISIS.

Agree strongly 20%

Agree 37%

Disagree 18%

Disagree strongly 25%

3) If you have employer-provided health care insurance, how much are your rates changing for 2016?

Going down 12%

Up from 0 to 5 percent 37%

Up from 5 to 10 percent 20%

Up more than 10 percent 31%

4) Should the Kansas City Council put a citizens petition on a 2016 ballot to require public approval for a new downtown convention hotel?

Agree strongly 31%

Agree 19%

Disagree 20%

Disagree strongly 29%

This story was originally published November 3, 2015 at 5:04 PM with the headline "Monday Poll results: From debates to a Kansas City hotel."

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