[evandi]

That is false. Moderates are also liberals and liberals are basically socialists.

Stop telling yourself this lie.

Every poll considers general adults more liberal/moderate than registered voters and registered voters more liberal/moderate than likely voters.

[Intolerant in NJ]

That is false. Moderates are also liberals and liberals are basically socialists...well, you're sort of right I guess - it is true that many people who describe themselves as moderate hold to essentially liberal values - as though it's so obvious they're correct in their views that everyone else must agree, and thus they're moderate - but my commment was to the fact that too many conservatives stayed home yesterday - ten million fewer people voted for Obama this time than in 2008, and had the same number of people voted for Romney as voted for McCain, he would have won the election - spite that Romney wasn't close enough to someone's philosophic idea of where he should be, simple inertia, or whatever, the need to know that they had done something major to try to keep Obama from having another four years to ruin this country just didn't seem important enough to get enough voters to the polls......