One Fish Two Fish Red State Blue State

By popular request, here's a hat tip to Robert Kuttner for writing that the country is not irrevocably divided into Red and Blue. If a die-hard liberal like Kuttner is acknowledging that most Americans live comfortably in the middle while they work, worship, and break bread with people of different views, maybe there really is hope for a big-tent governing coalition.

He uses Tennessee as an example of a "red" presidential state that's really "blue" if you look at its governor and 5-4 Democratic edge in its U.S. House delegation. For those who really want to understand how to win in the Indigo world, read this bio of Rep. Lincoln Davis and its emphasis on bipartisanship and family values.

His folks -- our folks -- are right smack dab in the middle of the "culture gap" that Stan Greenberg had to go all the way to Wisconsin and Arkansas to find.