Newsweek Pushes Back Against Dems

Was this the beginning of a mainstream media drumbeat warning Democrats against actually implementing change if the voters vote for change? Newsweek cover story (Oct 27):

CAMPAIGN 2008
It’s Not Easy Bein’ Blue
America remains a center-right nation
—a fact that a President Obama would forget at his peril.

Similar mainstream media anxiety was expressed in Nov. '06 when voters put Dems in control of Congress -- according to exist polls -- to get U.S. out of Iraq. If media are "liberal," why do so many of them seem to fear liberalism?