Abortion and other black and white issues would definitely be a weakness for a moderate party. I would think their strengths for better economic policies, bett

Abortion and other black and white issues would definitely be a weakness for a moderate party. I would think their strengths for better economic policies, better military policies, better domestic policies and on and on would outweigh the black-and-white single issues but I am afraid you might be right. People would rather have simple dogma on single issues. It's just easier to understand a single point of view on a binary issue. Personally, on a related tangent: I find that the weakest part of most discussions is the tendency to try to make every discussion into 2 opposing viewpoints, rather than seeing the billions of permutations possible on nearly any issue. But it happens all the time. It's so common that I believe it must be something somewhat hardwired into the way our brains work.