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Monday Poll results: Move it, Hillary Clinton, and no prime time for Claire McCaskill


Hillary Clinton: When will she decide?
Hillary Clinton: When will she decide? The Associated Press

In our weekly poll, we poked your brain about some aspects of the 2016 election campaign, with preliminaries well under way. Here are the results of our unscientific survey:

1) Hillary Clinton needs to announce now whether she’s running so other Democrats can figure out what they want to do.

Agree 55%

Disagree 45%

2) The next Republican nominee will be from the party’s libertarian wing.

Strongly agree 10%

Somewhat agree 29%

Somewhat disagree 35%

Strongly disagree 27%

3) The Koch brothers’ pledge to spend almost a billion dollars to elect candidates should encourage other groups to spend more.

Strongly agree 34%

Somewhat agree 28%

Somewhat disagree 10%

Strongly disagree 28%

4) U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri is a good prospect for a national ticket.

Strongly agree 17%

Somewhat agree 23%

Somewhat disagree 22%

Strongly disagree 38%

This story was originally published February 3, 2015 at 5:16 PM with the headline "Monday Poll results: Move it, Hillary Clinton, and no prime time for Claire McCaskill."

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