The electorate should have known, but they didn't, in no small measure because the MSM has made it their mission to conceal the truth and defend their savior.
We curmudgeonly types here hardly represent the voting populations level of awareness of all things political. I will bet you have relatives that know almost nothing of the things of which you speak. Willful ignorance is hard if not impossible to overcome.
Convert Bob Beckel or Alan Combs then you will have done something.
I think we can can take it for granted that everyone knew about Obamacare in 2012. As for the others, Google democraticunderground and either Benghazi or "obama medvedev open mic". The left knew, but the flukes, unions, EBT crowd, and homosexuals thought their issues were more important.