Whoa! SurveyUSA has just come in with a national poll, conducted Sept. 2-3, showing Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton 45 to 40 percent. Clearly even as Clinton’s unfavorables are going up, Trump’s are going down. The top line is not far out of line with national polls conducted between Aug. 11 and Aug. 30, which showed Trump with 41 to 45 percent and Clinton with 45 to 51 percent, but it is the first national poll showing Trump leading Clinton. But the biggest news in the SurveyUSA poll is its results for the “non-white” or “people of color” bloc that, in some psephologists’ analyses, is fated to make the Democrats a permanent majority party.

Against Trump, Clinton carries non-whites — but by less than impressive margins. Trump’s name is supposed to be mud among Hispanics, but he gets 31 percent of their votes — more than Mitt Romney in 2012, the same as John McCain in 2008 — and Clinton gets only a bare 50 percent. Among Asians, Trump actually has a (statistically insignificant) lead of 41 to 39 percent, echoing the 50 to 49 percent Asian margin for Republicans in the 2014 vote for House of Representatives. And among blacks Clinton leads Trump by 59 to 25 percent. That’s a huge contrast with Barack Obama’s margins of 95 to 4 percent in 2008 and 93 to 6 percent in 2012.

Read the article “Donald Trump Beats Hillary Clinton in Poll — and Gets 25 Percent Among Blacks” on washingtonexaminer.com.