There is just such a logical disconnect there. If you are a leftist, you should love Obama. You will never get a president that far to the left of the political spectrum under our current system. I guess they like the idea of socialism, they just don’t like its results.
In the northeast there are many “social liberals” that are “fiscal conservatives” (like Giuliani). Many Dems were quite comfortable voting for him (obviously many did), and social conservatives were not (and didn’t). These people aren’t socialists (as evidenced by their discomfort with having the black homeless show up - the prime beneficiaries of our socialist nirvana); they are social liberals that don’t want their income taxes raised to pay for more black people.
In simpler terms, they are “leftist” when it comes to divorce, abortion, etc., but they are not when they have to share their earnings.