Mini Poll: Looking ahead (and back) for Thanksgiving
Current Totals:
All things considered, should St. Louisans be thankful this Thanksgiving?
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Overall, would you say your own family is better off today than you were a year ago?
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Which of the following conditions are currently worrying you and your family a great deal? (Check all that apply)
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Grocery prices:
18%
Debt:
34%
Loneliness:
9%
Utility bills:
26%
Transportation costs:
14%
Trouble in the neighborhood:
16%
Political situation in the country:
67%
Finding/keeping a job:
23%
Tuition bills:
14%
Selling/buying a house:
17%
Illness:
19%
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Will you have guests at your home for Thanksgiving this year?
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Yes:
37%
No:
18%
No, I will be someone else's guest:
45%
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Will there be a vegetarian or vegan at your table this year?
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Yes:
20%
Yes, me:
6%
No:
68%
No Thanksgiving table for me:
5%
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Of which will there be more at your Thanksgiving table, friends or family?
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Friends:
16%
Family:
77%
No Thanksgiving table for me:
6%
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Will there be a stray or stranger at your Thanksgiving table this year?
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Yes:
25%
No:
68%
No Thanksgiving table for me:
6%
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Which of the following Thanksgiving traditions is the one you most like to make your own?
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Breaking the wishbone, making a wish:
5%
Announcing things for which we are thankful:
25%
Wearing loose-fitting clothes and eating too much:
16%
Preparing to shop on Black Friday:
2%
Going to church:
4%
Donating time or groceries to a pantry or shelter:
11%
Drunk tweeting relatives, ex-spouses:
3%
Watching or playing football:
15%
Going to a movie:
4%
Watching a parade:
7%
Putting up the Christmas tree:
8%
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Will you be attending the Thanksgiving Day parade in downtown St. Louis this year?
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Yes:
7%
No:
90%
No, but I will be at a different Thanksgiving parade:
3%
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Which of the following outcomes would you find more satisfying?
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I got the long end of the wishbone, giving me the wish:
27%
My loved one got the long end of the wishbone, givign him/her the wish:
73%
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Which of the following is the most important cooking tip for turkey?
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Leave the lid on:
9%
Take the lid off:
6%
Baste it often:
45%
Brine it:
13%
Fry it:
3%
Smoke it:
7%
Stuff it with a duck, stuff the duck with a chicken:
0%
Buy it cooked:
11%
Divorce it:
6%
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Which of the following local grocery stores would you most likely choose to prepare and cook your meal ahead of time and then pass it off as your own?
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Jay's International (3172 Grand):
3%
Straub's (302 N. Kingshighway):
31%
Viviano & Sons (5139 Shaw):
7%
Schnucks/Culinaria:
27%
Govinda's (3926 Lindell):
2%
LeGrand's (4414 Donovan):
10%
Local Harvest (3148 Morgan Ford):
12%
None, I’m picking up a meal from a food truck and saying I made it:
8%
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Which of the following is the best movie about Thanksgiving?
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Plymouth Adventure (1952):
6%
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953):
5%
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986):
11%
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987):
41%
Home for the Holidays (1995):
22%
Pocahontas (1995):
5%
The Ice Storm (1997):
6%
What’s Cooking (2000):
1%
Pieces of April (2003):
3%
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Do you think turkeys are Democrats or Republicans?
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Democrats:
25%
Republicans:
25%
Neither, because these fowl belong to the T(-urkey) Party:
50%
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Note: Due to rounding, results for some questions may not total 100%.
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