Banish pundits and polls from Thanksgiving election conversations

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The journalistic cliché has it that Thanksgiving weekend will be a decisive moment for the current election campaign.

It will be when families gather and talk politics.

They will share their hopes and fears and, in some cases, try to influence how their sisters, brothers, parents, children, cousins, aunts and uncles vote.