From Politico.com:

Obama’s support for the Community Choice Act would seem to give him the edge with voters who have disabilities. But it’s not clear how many people with disabilities are actually voting on the basis of that identity. Historically, the voting patterns of people with disabilities tend to mirror the population as a whole.

Pollsters normally do not use disability as a demographic sub-group, so there is no publicly available data on the disability community’s leanings in this election, and both campaigns declined to discuss their internal polling. None of the independent pollsters or consultants contacted for this piece had ever polled disabled people or were aware of others having done so.

“I have never heard of anybody doing this,” said Brad Bannon, a Democratic pollster. “It would require asking very sensitive questions in a survey which would lead respondents to hang up.”

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