I was also permitted to view video of some focus group activity, which showed Obama-Trump voters offering sharp criticism of Democrats on the economy. The pollsters also conducted focus groups with so-called drop-off voters — people who voted for Obama in 2012 but didn’t vote in 2016 — in the same states and polled 800 drop-off voters nationally. A sizable chunk of Obama-Trump voters — 30 percent — said their vote for Trump was more a vote against Clinton than a vote for Trump. 42 per cent of Obama-Trump voters said congressional Democrats’ economic policies will favour the wealthy, vs. only 21 per cent of them who said the same about Trump. “There’s a lot of commonality between these drop-off voters and the Obama-Trump voters,” Cecil said.

Source: National Post May 01, 2017 18:00 UTC