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Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others
Gallup ^ | November 30, 2007 | Frank Newport

Posted on 11/30/2007 8:08:07 AM PST by West Coast Conservative

Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats. This relationship between party identification and reports of excellent mental health persists even within categories of income, age, gender, church attendance, and education.

The basic data -- based on an aggregated sample of more than 4,000 interviews conducted since 2004 -- are straightforward.

The differences are quite significant, as can be seen. While Democrats are slightly less likely to report excellent mental health than are independents, the big distinctions in these data are the differences between Republicans and everyone else.

One could be quick to assume that these differences are based on the underlying demographic and socioeconomic patterns related to party identification in America today. A recent Gallup report (see "Strong Relationship Between Income and Mental Health" in Related Items) reviewed these mental health data more generally, and found that men, those with higher incomes, those with higher education levels, and whites are more likely than others to report excellent mental health. Some of these patterns describe characteristics of Republicans, of course.

But an analysis of the relationship between party identification and self-reported excellent mental health within various categories of age, gender, church attendance, income, education, and other variables shows that the basic pattern persists regardless of these characteristics. In other words, party identification appears to have an independent effect on mental health even when each of these is controlled for.

(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bds; bushhaters; callawaaambulance; democrats; gallup; health; poll; republican; starkravingsocialism
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1 posted on 11/30/2007 8:08:09 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
Republicans are happy. Democrats wallow in misery. Conservatives enjoy life. Liberals are perpetually angry. The Gallup Poll is a dollar short and a day late here.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 11/30/2007 8:10:05 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Froufrou

Other side of the story ping.


3 posted on 11/30/2007 8:10:09 AM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Is BDS an officially diagnosed mental illness now?


4 posted on 11/30/2007 8:11:54 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Junior Captain of the Mark Steyn Groupie Squad)
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To: West Coast Conservative; PJ-Comix

Sheesh, the DUmmies seem to revel in posting about thier mental problems and medications.


5 posted on 11/30/2007 8:13:51 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Worse than that, BDS is a politically protected illness and qualifies those who suffer from it for the employees with disabilities act...


6 posted on 11/30/2007 8:14:36 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Do they swap meds?


7 posted on 11/30/2007 8:15:03 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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To: weegee

Probably, they seem to swap everything else.


8 posted on 11/30/2007 8:17:56 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: West Coast Conservative
Of course....one of the most common signs of craziness is the absolute conviction that you are not crazy. So maybe....just maybe....we are all

maaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!
9 posted on 11/30/2007 8:20:56 AM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

“Liberalism is a mental disorder”


10 posted on 11/30/2007 8:21:05 AM PST by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Sheesh, the DUmmies seem to revel in posting about thier mental problems and medications.

If you go to DU, they actually have an entire "Mental Health Support Group" forum dedicted to mental illnesses among their members. It's one of their bigger forums.

11 posted on 11/30/2007 8:22:22 AM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist (Scary thought: Half of all people are dumber than the average person.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

There’s no way to “feel* like a Democrat” without taking on a heaping helping of cognitive dissonance. That, in turn, takes a toll on your mental health.

*I started to say “THINK like a Democrat”, but Democrats can’t possibly arrive at their contorted positions by logical thinking.


12 posted on 11/30/2007 8:22:59 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Retire Ron Paul! Support Chris Peden (www.chrispeden.org))
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To: West Coast Conservative

Analyzing Catch 22.


13 posted on 11/30/2007 8:23:28 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

The chicken and the egg.


14 posted on 11/30/2007 8:24:49 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Where are the Libertarians reported? Oh, they’re probably stoned anyway.


15 posted on 11/30/2007 8:25:32 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Cobbing freely on FR since 1999.)
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To: JamesP81
DemocRats live a miserable life and lie and indeed in mental disorder status.
16 posted on 11/30/2007 8:27:26 AM PST by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Everybody’s crazy but thee and me, and sometimes I wonder about thee.


17 posted on 11/30/2007 8:27:28 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

ROTFLOL!!


18 posted on 11/30/2007 8:31:10 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: FreedomProtector

Thus, Ann Coulter’s book title “If Democrats had brains they would be Republicans” is a pure scientific truth.


19 posted on 11/30/2007 8:42:37 AM PST by registeredvoters
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To: West Coast Conservative
Better mental health than the Democrats??? Is this some kind of joke???

If Leftists--the Democrat Party is their Political Machine--were not psychotics, sociopaths, or other assorted nutcases, they wouldn't be Leftists in the first place.

In fact, the Decadence that threatens the Western World, including the U.S.A., like the Black Plague of ages past, only more deadly, IS a mental illness. And Leftists, by definition, are afflicted with it.

20 posted on 11/30/2007 8:43:14 AM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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