Some are. Others are not political junkies. They are just ignorant, no doubt due to their lack of curiousity and a drive by media with the same lack of curiousity.
The drive by media portrayed BHO as a pragmatic moderate.
The rats in Congress started moving to the right in 2006.
Large numbers of voters don't know the issues, and they decide their votes in the last days before an election.
re: decide their votes in the last days before an election
And they base that decision on what they read and hear, and which comes down to simply that is liberal equals good, conservative means bad. Not only bad, but evil. There vote is based on feelings that have been planted by the spin of the press for months and months leading up to the vote.
The years of public education at the hands of mostly liberal teachers have primed the pump, and the press has topped off the mix to assure they will vote liberal.