It's hard to recall a presidential election in which the Democratic candidate so aggressively called for higher taxes on the affluent. Yes, Obama made similar proposals in 2008, and Gore ran a pretty populist campaign in 2000, but none of that compares to how this year Obama repeatedly hammered the idea that taxes on the rich need to go up, and how his campaign excoriated Romney for not paying his fair share of taxes.
Are there voters out there who didn't know, going into the polling booth, that Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich? I'm sure there were, but not very many.