Editorial: Election Day was a welcome rebuke to the extremists of both parties

Tuesday was a very good day if you support common sense in American politics.

On both the right and the left, voters and politicians embraced candidates and positions that represent the centrist tendencies that for much of this republic’s history have defined its politics.

Most notably, Republicans continued to get waxed at the polls on the issue of eliminating or sharply restricting abortion rights. Ohio voters easily passed a