If your beliefs don't justify gaps in status, you could be left frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University. They conducted a U.S.-centric survey and a more internationally focused one to arrive at the findings. "Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives," the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, "apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light."

The House Budget Subcommittee, commonly known on Capitol Hill as the “black hole,” effectively killed legislation today that would have prohibited automobile passengers from having an open container of alcohol. The Senate had previously passed the bill, imposing a $50 fine on those passengers caught. The bill’s passage would have allowed $12 million in federal funds currently spent on DUI prevention to go toward road funding.

[O]ne voting group has been a demographic outlier: Catholics. In several states, Catholics have flitted between Obama and Clinton. True, Catholics have been a constituency of Hillary Clinton’s overall, but they have gone for Obama.

What this suggests is that McCain attracts more than an average Republican's share of Jewish voters -- not that Obama repels him.