{"id":1052506,"date":"2021-11-24T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1052506"},"modified":"2021-11-24T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:44:01","slug":"poll-two-thirds-of-americans-hope-to-avoid-politics-at-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-hope-to-avoid-politics-at-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Hope to Avoid Politics at Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-two-thirds-of-americans-hope-to-avoid-politics-at-thanksgiving%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1052506&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1276421423-e1637779768514-639x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Most Americans are not in the mood discuss politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table this year, a Quinnipiac Poll released this week found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are visiting with family or friends this Thanksgiving, are you looking forward to discussing politics, or are you hoping to avoid discussing politics?\u201d the survey <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3829\">asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Two-thirds said they are \u201choping to avoid\u201d political discussions this year, while only one-fifth, 21 percent, said they are \u201clooking forward\u201d to such discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The hope of avoiding political discussions is held by all across the board, as 66 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of independents, and 68 percent of Republicans agreed that they are \u201choping to avoid\u201d political discussions this year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The survey also asked respondents, \u201cHow likely do you think it is that there will be a heated political debate among either your family or friends at this Thanksgiving; very likely, somewhat likely, not so likely, or not likely at all?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Most, 74 percent, believe that it is either \u201cnot so likely\u201d or \u201cnot likely at all.\u201d Once again, Democrats, independents, and Republicans hold similar sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, taken November 11-15, 2021, among 1,378 U.S. adults has a margin of error of +\/- 2.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The questions follow a contentious year, as last year\u2019s holiday discussions largely centered around the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and debates on whether the election was stolen from the former president. All the while, officials were still warning Americans to avoid gatherings, citing concerns over the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this year, America have met similar challenges, as well as new ones. Virus hysteria lingers, with some blue states reintroducing restrictions. All the while, the economy is struggling with inflation as the prices of basic goods, including gasoline, skyrocket. All the while, millions of Americans face potentially dire circumstances due to the Biden administration\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandate, requiring employers with 100 or more employees to either require vaccinations or implement weekly testing requirements\u2014 the latter of which essentially&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/04\/osha-rule-imposes-burdens-on-the-unvaccinated-does-not-require-employers-to-pay-for-any-costs-associated-with-testing\/\">amounts<\/a> to a work tax. However, OSHA has temporarily suspended the rule after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/17\/osha-vaccine-mandate-court-order\/\">granted<\/a> a motion to stay its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">The survey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/23\/majority-of-americans-plan-to-spend-thanksgiving-with-people-outside-their-household\/\">coincides<\/a> with an&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Ipsos\/Axios survey released this week, which found that&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">67 percent of Americans <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/news-polls\/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">plan<\/a> to see friends and family outside of their immediate household for the holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans are not in the mood discuss politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table this year, a Quinnipiac Poll released this week found. \u201cIf you are visiting with family or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}