Obama is truly a Messiah to them because so many of them have ignored, or discarded, the Godly light within themselves upon birth.
Correspondingly, most Evangelicals do NOT go for Obama.
rejected the true Messiah.
Professing to be wise, they became fools,
and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God
for an image in the form of corruptible man...
(Romans 1:22-23)