Happy Labor Day -- and a Thank You to Donald Trump

It's Labor Day in America, and I haven't had better news for the last holiday of summer since 2008. ~~~~~ Donald Trump, according to a surprising new poll from SurveyUSA, beats Hillary Clinton in a general election, 45% to 40%, with 16% of voters undecided. He wins a big share of the Democrats’ non-white base -- 25% of African Americans, 31% of Hispanics and 41% of the relatively small Asian vote. It is better than Republican presidential candidates do with these important constituencies and that is probably disconcerting news for the GOP establishment who are wary of Trump. But in contrast to the GOP establishment that likes to wring its hands over demographic trends that shrink the GOP voter share, Trump stands by a border wall, some form of repatriation program for millions of undocumented migrant workers, and new curbs on middle-class outsourcing to the roughly 700,000 guest-workers used by Fortune 500 companies. Trump’s labor-supply reform would probably do what he is promising -- create jobs for Americans, raise wages, and lower profits, all of which might somehow boost his support among lower-wage, often-jobless Americans. In 2012, the GOP’s establishment candidate, former Governor Mitt Romney, won only 27% of Hispanics and a mere 6% of blacks, who are hit hardest by the bipartisan support for cheap, government-dependent migrants. Now, Trump must win over the large undecided vote, which the poll says is at 16%. The SurveyUSA  poll of 1,000 Americans, including 900 registered voters, on September 2 and 3, also shows that Trump reverses the long-standing sex-gap to +10% in his favor. That’s the combination of a 15-point advantage among men, and only a 5-point disadvantage among women. In contrast, Romney had a 7-point advantage among men, and a 11-point disadvantage among women, resulting in a - 4-point sex-gap. Clinton wins people younger than age 35 by 19%, but Trump wins the three older demographic groups by roughly 15%. Trump wins four-year college grads by 8%, and people with some college by 13%, leaving Clinton to take the high-school-only voters, 44% to 35%. Trump wins swing-voting moderates, 42% to 38%. Clinton wins the West by a scant 2%, and the Northeast by only 4%, but Trump wins the very important swing-voting Midwest by a huge margin -- 49% to 31%. Trump beats the Democrats’ B-team -- Senator Bernie Sanders by 44% to 40%, Vice President Joe Biden by 44% to 42%, and former Vice President Al Gore by 44% to 41%. And Trump hasn’t spent a penny on campaign advertising so far. ~~~~~ Dear readers, a poll like this will "make my day." Think about the African American and Hispanic poll percentages for Trump. What many of us have long believed is true -- the Republican Party is the natural ally of all Americans who want ethical values, a good education, a fair chance at jobs and homes, and a small government that leaves enough Dollars in their pockets to achieve those goals for themselves and their children. All it takes to bring them home to America is a GOP that sincerely reaches out to them. Thank you, Donald Trump. ~~~ Wishing everyone a Happy Labor Day.