Posted on 10/25/2008 12:36:13 PM PDT by XR7
WASHINGTON — The good news for Republicans: You are happier than Democrats. You always have been, and you probably always will be.
Never mind that your presidential candidate is sinking in the polls while your president plumbs historic depths of popular scorn and your free market squeals for intervention while your Wall Street investments evaporate. You are not just happier than the other guys, but more of you are very happy, according to new survey results published Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
The pollsters were in the field asking about happiness this month, when economic news was gloomy for everybody and presidential campaign news seemed especially baleful for Republicans. Yet they found 37 percent of Republicans are "very happy," compared with 25 percent of Democrats; 51 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats are "pretty happy"; and 9 percent of Republicans are "not too happy," compared with 20 percent of Democrats.
The partisan happiness gap — unbroken for nearly 40 years — is impervious to electoral ups and downs. It has something to do with worldview.
"I'm very happy," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and a Republican. "When I was 12, I realized the world was not organized around my desires and wishes. The problem with guys on the left is they never figured that out at age 12. And they're just irritated the world is not organized around their vision. This makes them grumpy."
Chris Lehane doesn't sound grumpy. The Democratic consultant is on the phone from San Francisco: "My guess is if [Pew] checked the cross tabs out in California, we're all pretty happy out here. The wine is still good, the food is fresh, the people are beautiful."
But seriously, Lehane said, if Republicans are more happy, it's because...
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Democrats/Liberals believe their happiness depends on outer circumstances only they can control. They live in the world of "ought-to-be" where life needs to be a certain way to suit them. This is a guaranteed recipe for perpetual unhappiness, personal disaster, blaming others, and dissatisfaction every way you look.
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20,000 People Rally for Sarah Palin in Springfield, Missouri!
eyewitness report | October 25, 2008 | john in springfield
Posted on 10/25/2008 1:29:16 PM PDT by john in springfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115191/posts
StarTribune Endorses Norm Coleman
(somewhere, pigs are flying and money is growing on trees)
Minneapolis RedStar ^ | October 26, 2008 | RedStar Editorial Board
Posted on 10/25/2008 12:20:24 PM PDT by GreatOne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115132/posts
Many good American women would be, given a $150,000+ fashion budget.
I'd say it was worth it. ;-)
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