This "game" is never straight and simple - that's exactly why the author is so careful to introduce the facts and the quotes from the "players" themselves.
"... [He] is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known ..." - from Manchurian Candidate (1962)
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple... our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt" - Henry Graham Greene
“Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple... our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt”.
When you have intelligent and corrupt Democrats leading the ignorant and simple Democrats you have the Obama 47%.