Why Are Republicans Happier than Dems?
Just saw this at Drudge:
Poll: Republicans Are Happier Than Democrats
Wed Mar 15 2006 10:14:36 ETThe Pew Research Center recently updated a question about happiness that the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago has been asking since 1972.
In every asking of the question, ROLL CALL reports, Republicans have been happier than Democrats.
Republicans tend to be better off than Democrats, and that is one explanation for the happiness gap. But when the researchers controlled for household income, Republicans at all income levels were happier than Democrats at those same income levels.
As for ideology, conservative Republicans were happier than conservative Democrats, and moderate to liberal Republicans were happier than comparable Democrats.
I find it very interesting that the differences are not only present, but very consistent.
Why do you suppose Republicans are consistently happier than Democrats?
