‘Tis the Season to Be Miserable: 43% of Americans Having Difficulty Getting into Holiday Spirit… Conservatives Happier Than Liberals
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 23, 2009
From Rasmussen Reports today, results from two new polls on the economy and on Christmas… the first one:
Nine percent (9%) of adults rate the economy as good or excellent while 55% say it’s in poor shape. That’s one reason just 16% say they’ll be spending more on holiday gifts this season. Sixty-three percent (63%) say they’ll be spending less.
While most Americans consider the holiday season joyous, not everyone is feeling the spirit this year.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% of Americans are having difficulty getting into the holiday spirit. Still, 50% are not having any problem getting into the spirit.
And here’s a bit of news to further dampen the moods of those who elected POTUS… they’re far more miserable than conservatives by about double. I’m guessing that they comprise the majority of people who also can’t get into the holiday spirit, but I could be wrong.
From Jillian Bandes, Townhall.com: Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals:
Arthur Brooks isn’t the first to make this claim, but he’s the latest –
Despite the stereotype of grim conservatives and happy-go-lucky liberals, the truth is that people on the political right are nearly twice as happy as those on the left.
It’s part of his overview of happiness in America, which he lays out in his book, Gross National Happiness. He also makes this other claim:
Marriage makes people very happy, but children have the opposite effect: The happiness of couples, and the quality of their marriage, falls after the birth of the first child.
Additional reading:
Diary of a Mad Conservative: 2010 – It’s gonna be a good year!
Patterico’s Pontifications: Holiday Sales and Consumer Sentiment and ObamaCare and 2010: Whither the “bounce” and Holding Out for Health Care
Frugal Café Blog Zone: America’s Very Statist Christmas Tree… White House Makes Political Statements, Again Ignoring Majority of Voters and Numbskulls: Democrats Ignore Record Unemployment, Want to Give Illegal Aliens Amnesty Instead and Christian Christmas Displays Still Under Attack… But 76% of Americans Believe Religious Symbols Should Be Allowed and War on Christmas: Best Buy Flunks for Its “Happy Eid al-Adha,” Bans “Merry Christmas” in After-Thanksgiving Christmas Ads and ‘Tis the Season… for Bashing and Banning Christmas: Victory for Atheists in Washington? (video)
Nice Deb: The Obama’s Hacky-Tacky White House Christmas Tree
Doctor Bulldog & Ronin: Commies and Transvestites Honored on White House Christmas Tree
The Powers That Be: Psst, White House Christmas Tree… Your Mao Balls are Showing
James Panero, Big Government: Mao and the Christmas Tree: The President’s Yuletide Jeer
James Tyler: Obama to Call Christmas Tree a “Holiday Tree” – Is this an affront to our cultural heritage?
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Obama’s White House Christmas Tree Includes Mao Tse-Tung Ornaments!
Gateway Pundit: Too Funny. Far Left Finally Discovers Obama Is a Weak Leader and Oh My… Barack Obama’s Approval Index Plunges After Health Care Rammed Through Senate and Of Course… Obama’s White House Christmas Tree Includes Mao Tse-Tung Ornaments and Black Muslim Group Celebrates “Brother & Martyr” Maurice Clemmons and Religious Ornaments Banned From Annual Capital Christmas Tree This Year and Liberal Politics at Its Best… Nearly Half of Detroit Is Unemployed
Big Hollywood: Danny Glover Sees No Difference Between Obama and Bush
HillBuzz: The First Day of Obamamas and Something fun to do to Best Buy: force them to recognize every obscure and/or offensive holiday you can think of and You are hereby ordered by the State of Utopia to prepare merrily for Obamamas, December 13th
Rasmussen Reports: Americans Strongly Favor Religious Displays on Public Lands, Celebrating Religious Holidays in Schools
Kristinn Taylor, Big Government: TEA Party Patriots: Don’t Go Home, Fight!
Bob Parks, Big Government: Obama: A Republican Plant?
JammieWearingFool: Good News: Shamnesty to Soon Be Revived
Hot Air: Napolitano: Hey, 2010 will be a good year for an immigration debate
Political Lipskip: Federal Pay Outrage
TimesNews.net: Number of federal workers getting 6-figure salaries explodes during recession; trend boosts average federal worker salary to $71,206
Scared Monkeys: Barack Obama Daily Presidential Tracking Poll at -19%
Real Clear Politics: Grade Inflation?
Jules Crittenden: Bad News For Bad Ideas
Sister Toldjah: Senate Democrats continue to show blatant disregard for the Constitution
Dancing Czars: BREAKING NEWS: Senate to vote on health care bill unconstitutionality! and Obama sued for secret abortion meetings
Riehl World View, Best Buy Re-Discovers Christmas, Along With Eid-al-Adha
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