text: Sorry, I'm having too much fun answering your questions.\n\nMy dad's a moderate - he votes Democrat, but he's more conservative than most of the party.  My mom is more at the left end, occasionally veering off into a sort of endearing paranoid-conspiracy-theory-leftist land.  I'm somewhere in the middle - I like to think of myself as a pragmatist, but I've been described by friends as an "aggressively moderate liberal".\n\n(By the way, points for you for using politics as a singular word.  Grammar - my other geeky little obsession.)