.us domains vs .com - What does Google Think?

[Tom-R]

Suppose I had 2 domains, carloans.us & carloans.com with exactly the same links profiles, and content (not duplicate but you know what I mean).

Would Google favour the .com domain?

In my experience, yes. But I might be wrong?
Same with other not so standard domains like .biz etc.

Am I right to believe that Google can prefer the more common domain extensions?

[john4math]

In the SEOMoz 2011 rankings report, it shows that exact match .com domains are 0.22 correlated with higher rankings, whereas exact match domain names (with other domain suffixes, like .us) are only 0.17 correlated with higher rankings.  So, it still appears that .com is still the boss.