Todd: Nice review on Fiorina’s book. I agree that most of us are “moderate.”

Nevertheless, I’ve observed more passion then I’d have expected between all of us red and blue “moderates,” and the birth rate correlation seems to explain things better than anything else I’ve seen.

I’d always boiled things down to saying people vote their pocketbook; in other words their own survival/comfort. Guess I forgot that for most of us with kids, the survival and future of our offspring usually trumps our own survival and comfort. Blame Darwin.

Singles and/or those who don’t stay married long tend to be blue. The rest, especially with offspring, tend to be red—family values. That’s why Utah is especially red. (Heavily unionized Michigan is an exception, but that’s probably due to all that industrial pollution.)