Gallup survey: Republicans are happier than Democrats
A newly-released Gallup survey on Americans' happiness and contentment shows many interesting things, one of which is that people who identify themselves as Republicans are happier than those who identify themselves as Democrats.

"Even when accounting for partisan differences in marital status and household income, Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats and independents to be very happy," and there is a table laying it all out that I tried but failed to copy here cleanly.

97 percent of Republicans described themselves as either very happy or fairly happy. 91 percent of Democrats did. I am not persuaded that this difference is significant, as Gallup says. Says the survey,

Why Republicans are happier is not clear, but the result has been the same in nearly every asking of this measure since 1996, including one reading under former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and three under Republican President George W. Bush. Only in 1996 did Republicans and Democrats express about equal levels of happiness.