Toms River, a large suburb in central New Jersey that happens to be my home, is not a left-leaning town. It is not a moderate town. It is not even right-leaning – it is, if election results are to be believed, a deeply conservative town. It is the kind of town where explicitly starting your desire to ban all abortion gets you elected and re-elected to Congress. The kind of town whose elected officials viciously fight a resolution that would give a dying cop's pension to her partner, because that partner happens to be of the same sex.