Moderates are an endangered species in the pews, but they aren’t completely extinct at the ballot box

Moderates are such an endangered species that even when you see one in the wild, they’re easy to miss.

Pick your favorite hot button topic of the day and you can likely summarize what the left and what the right think about the issue. Abortion, guns, gay marriage — it’s easy to determine which side is pro and which is anti. But where do the moderates fall? What do they believe?

Moderates are ideologically somewhere between liberals and conservatives. Individuals who identify as moderates have political identities. However, as a whole,...