Seems a little far reaching. Weakly affiliated democrats could have been swayed with anything, especially since their voting option was a second Obama term in 2012. It could have been as simple as they overheard how many tax breaks the democrats were letting expire while getting the testosterone.

I’m sure plenty of us used to be a Democrat that were swayed. The party wasn’t always so “liberal”, but I guess the US as a whole wasn’t either.

The thing that swayed me the most was working hard, and overcoming hardships, to make something of myself, then seeing a good chunk of that taken away and given to people who sit on their ass all day.