"To the extent that Obama-Trump voters were identified as those who voted for the 44th president in either 2008 or 2012, it is important to remember that Obama won pretty big the first time around: According to exit polls, he won 9 percent of self-identified Republicans and 20 percent of self-identified conservatives. He also won independents—a category that includes a lot of people who usually vote Republican—52/44.
"But there's more than incidental evidence that apparent Obama-Trump voters aren't loyal Democrats who suddenly flipped because Trump was appealing to their material or cultural interests: They supported Republicans down-ballot, too:"
Ed Kilgore at New York reads Dana Milbank's article about how the Democratic Party should target disaffected voters.
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