re: Thanksgiving - They live too far away, but will be in town for Christmas...
Try to have a very Merry, Merry Christmas. That means keep the politics out of the conversation if you can. I know my goal is to talk about anything but politics during holidays. Interestingly I was invited to Thanksgiving dinner by a super liberal friend. They never even mentioned the election. Funny, since this was the only thing they wanted to talk about in October.