Politics Are Ruining Holidays and Family Gatherings

At this point, pretty much everyone in the country has lost their mind when it comes to politics. Unfortunately, it's going to come up at Thanksgiving dinners all around the country next week.

That is unless you can get the hell out of there before the debate starts.

Two researchers ran a pretty in-depth study using people's cell phone location tracking from last Thanksgiving, and they figured out that politics are ruining the holiday.

They found people who were from areas that voted Democratic spend an average of 20 to 30 minutes less at their relatives' houses in Republican areas. And people from Republican areas spend 40 minutes less at their Democratic relatives' homes.

They also found that political ads on TV are really ruining Thanksgiving. For every thousand political commercials that aired in a city, Thanksgiving dinners were one-and-a-half minutes shorter.

Read more at Miami Herald.