Moderate Americans - A Majority?

I happen to believe that a majority of Americans are basically moderates in most things. Most people believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, but that everyone, heterosexuals and homosexuals, should have the same rights. Most people think that having a gun is a right, but there are times and places that guns should be restricted, if not banned. ( If a person goes to a political rally to shoot a member of the government, isn't this an attempt at a violent over-throw of the government? Isn't this treason?) Most people believe that government should be big enough to pass laws to ensure the life is fair for all people, and that corporations don't run rough-shod over the country ( some don't even care about this, and yet they wonder why so many don't like them?). But everyone agrees that government should be as efficient as possible, and as small as possible to achieve these means. I could take just about anything in the news, and say that if there was a middle ground, a way to make both extremes happy and unhappy at the same time, a majority of people would be for that idea. But how big is the majority, and maybe more important, is that majority a minority in a large part of the country? My guess would be that 60% to maybe 75% of Americans would fall into this group, and there are very few places in America that they're not the majority. But tell me how many people in either the Congress or the White House feel that way? Would you get to double digits? Even if you barely get to triple digits, that still means not only that you're in the minority, but that over 80% of the government doesn't feel that way. Washington, does this help you understand why so many dislike you? Unfortunately, probably not.