Happiness is being Republican?
Posted by Moonage on 16 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe
Here’s the odd stat of the day:
Republicans are much happier than Democrats. In fact, they’re even happier than those people who don’t carry the burden of any party affiliation at all, who oddly enough, are the least very happy. This leads me to wonder. Pew doesn’t analyze this data too much, they just spit it out. But, I am curious, do very happy people tend to become Republican or does becoming Republican make one become very happy? Now, some people are just born very happy. And, some people are pretty much born Republican. In that case, there’s not a lot of psychoanalysis necessary. They just keep on keeping on being what they are, very happy and Republican. This leads to the group I’m wondering about, those that are not necessarily born very happy or born Republican. In that case, do they have a sudden epiphany that if they switch to Republican they become very happy? I don’t know. Pew’s a tease. Seems to me that if the country’s so polarized and 70% of Democrats are not very happy, they’d have the sense to do what’s necessary to become very happy.
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