Don't forget that Rahn Emanuel recruited candidates who were relatively moderate on the social issues in 2006.

Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal:

Rahn Emanuel as chief of staff strikes many people as the choice of a jarringly partisan figure. It seems an unusual choice for Mr. Obama. He hasn't staffed his campaign with fierce gut fighters but benign-seeming smoothies, the best kind of smoothie to be. And yet if you know you're going to have to handle obstreperous congresspersons of your own party, you just might go for a known leader and discipliner of congressional Democrats. At any rate, props to Paul Begala for once calling Mr. Emanuel's leadership style as "a cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache." During the Democratic Convention in August, Mr. Emanuel told me he goes once a week to a grocery store and talks to normal people about how they're seeing things. That's a good sign. So is the fact that he recruited candidates who were relatively moderate on the social issues in 2006.