He condemned the person for specific acts/rhetoric without an explicit endorsement or a statement that people shouldn't vote for him.
It's political semantics, but it's semantics that matters.
Nevertheless the Catholic Church in the US would still need decades of reform to purge the right wing lunacy that has permeated its upper echelons. There's been a lot of appointments during the latter years of John Paul and Benedict who were meant to fight the culture war and who have been shockingly effective at it. Ratzinger has been running appointments in the US much longer than he has been pope.