Just now flipping through channels and stopped at the New Year's celebration at O'Donnell's Last Word. They were discussing the greatest people of 2012. One talking head among the liberals on the show named Obama and the reason he gave was that Obama's record (not just rhetoric, record) had restored faith in government.
Dawkin's in his anti-religious The God Delusion writes at one point how supports government taking children away from religious parents.
The Liberal God Delusion begins "Our government has been hijacked by a party obsessed with a higher power. But I’m not talking about GOP. I’m talking about the left and their worship of government." It concludes: "In the wake of Obama’s reelection, unreasoning reliance on federal power distorts our politics far more destructively than simple-minded faith in God. At the moment, big-government fundamentalism poses more of a threat to the republic than religious absolutism."