Liberals & Conservatives
According to the National Opinion Research Center’s General Social Surveys, 1972-2004, 44% of people who reported being “conservative” or “very conservative” said they were “very happy” versus only 25% of people who reported being “liberal” or “very liberal.” A 2007 Gallup poll found that 58% of Republicans versus only 38% of Democrats said that their mental heath is “excellent.”
Daniel Klein (”Survey Project: Policy Views of Academics“), using voter registrations, found that in all departments in all colleges and universities throughout the USA, Democrats outnumber Republicans by 8 to 1. Smith College political scientist Stanley Rothman, in a 2005 national study, found that only 15% professors describe themselves as conservative, compared to 72% who said they were liberal (80% in humanities and social sciences).