You'll have to excuse me if I discount anything and everything written in the Daily Kos. So let me first say I didn't read your link because the Daily Kos is the most agenda driven corrupt source of news on the internet.

Saying that, if people are fed slanted reporting they'll give slanted answers. Or as some say, "stupid in, stupid out".

To prove my point; Obama won the presidency when I knew, and many like me knew, what he really was when he, with the aid and support of the liberal media, was portraying himself as a centrist. Maybe an intelligent informed leftist like you knew that the unwashed masses were being mislead and just supported and agreed with the "end justifies the means" tactics, but for most they were just scammed.