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Poll result: Almost half readers set for traditional Thanksgiving

About 45 per cent of those who answered the poll said they were going to sit down to a family dinner this long weekend
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Richmond News polled 301 Richmond News readers and asked the question: What are your plans for the Thanksgiving long weekend?

The poll ran from 10/3/2022 to 10/7/2022. Of the 301 votes, we can determine that 94 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Getting out of town 5.32 % local, 10.30 % total    
Family dinner 54.26 % local, 44.52 % total    
Nothing 31.91 % local, 34.88 % total    
Wait, it's Thanksgiving next weekend? 8.51 % local, 10.30 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Richmond. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 5.64%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.