*EDITED*If you are showering unqualified praise and admiration onto an openly bigoted person....

[eomer]

111. Like me you probably didn't call candidate Obama a bigot when you knocked doors (I assume in 2008).

You probably delivered some form of unqualified praise. That's what I did. One guy replied to me that I was a fanatic and that seeing me at his door confirmed his belief that Obama was a Communist or something like that. In that one case out of many hundreds of doors, I told him that, no, actually, I wasn't that big a fan of Obama but that he was the better alternative. Now I wonder whether maybe I was wrong, whether it would have been better to have a Republican in name that Democrats would be fighting against rather than the stealth Republican that Obama turned out to be (the opposite of that loony guy who thought he was a Communist).

My point is just that people's actual opinions can be more complex and nuanced than you know from a brief interaction with them. You're likely getting a simplified view as most posts on DU make a narrow point and don't purport to say every thing that person thinks about the more general topic.