Politics at Thanksgiving: Will it Affect the Polls?

[wyethwire]

Do the political discussions we have around the Thanksgiving table have an impact on the polls? One political science professor seems to think so.

http://drjasonjohnson.com/2011/11/23/politics-at-thanksgiving-will-it-affect-the-polls/

"If you hear during Thanksgiving dinner how most of the family’s college kids actually have good job prospects this spring, then you’re going to have a much better view of the sitting president. If half the family couldn’t make it to Thanksgiving because your cousin still hasn’t found a job in the last 9 months, then you think the economy is still lousy.

People don’t care about polls: they care about how their families are doing. What’s a 9% unemployment rate to you when everyone around the turkey table is gainfully employed or has been re-hired recently?

Most Americans will have a much stronger opinion about how they feel about Obama, the GOP field and the country as a whole after this weekend. The poll numbers that we’re seeing today should look totally different by next Tuesday."

http://drjasonjohnson.com/2011/11/23/politics-at-thanksgiving-will-it-affect-the-polls/

[liberal N proud]

1. No, it will just divide people a little further

There will be fights and some will climb across the table as my brother did to me once.

It will do nothing because the right wingers will not listen and will only repeat fact-less rhetoric.

[wyethwire]

2. More from the article

It’s the holiday when everybody actually gets together and talks. About sports, about religion, about who in the family is having kids, and of course about politics. Isn’t every coming of age dramedy film about family getting together for some big holiday meal and the liberal daughter arguing with her conservative uncle about gay rights or abortion? Well this holiday season all keen eyes should take a look at the presidential polling numbers coming next week after holiday season Part I (pre-Christmas) passes.