Well jboot, I work with some who voted for Obama in ‘08 when they were in a “state of stupid”. Now they are embarrassed, to say the least, and very disappointed in his job performance. It only took a little nudging to get them to abandon him this time. I don’t know any family members who voted for him. Our family is long-time, entrenched, Conservatives. We knew the guy was a Marxist Muslim from the git go.
The coworker who twisted my arm to get me to vote for ‘Bammy in ‘08 figured it out on his own when he got cut from his DoD job, and the friend who used to be in a union calls Zero the “Obamination.” Those guys were low-hanging fruit. Most of the remaining folks I’m thinking of are friends of friends, and they love Zero and Big Government more than ever. All this is to say that I think most minds are already made up.
Those people sound like Independents, or moderate Dems - not hard-core, progressive liberals. If it only took a little nudging from you to get them to come over to our side, then they were never in the 47% to begin with.
Try nudging a hardened liberal. It's like trying to move the Rock of Gibraltar.