Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, November 6th.

Today on Forbes, why small business owners are the only surefire winners in this election?

Despite the deep divide between the political parties, one patch of common ground remains.

Small businesses are likely to benefit, no matter who wins the presidential election.

Politicians have long pandered to this sector, a tradition Ronald Reagan highlighted in 1983,

when he joked in a radio address that, quote, every week should be small business week,

because America is small business. It makes sense.

Small businesses not only employ 46% of all private sector workers, but since 1995 have generated

more than 60% of new private sector jobs.

Moreover, with the American public increasingly distrustful of nearly all institutions, small business

retains its sheen.

It scores the highest of any sector in Gallup's latest confidence and institution survey,

with 68% of Americans saying they trust small business, quote, a great deal or quite a lot.

That stands in stark contrast to the mere 16% who say the same for big

business and, at the bottom, the 9% who have similar trust in Congress. Yet small business owners

have election jitters. For 51 years, the National Federation of Independent Business, or NFIB,

has tracked small businesses uncertainty by counting, quote, don't know and, quote, uncertain responses to six key questions about the

economy and their own expansion plans. In September, the gauge jumped 11 points from August,

hitting its highest level in the survey's history,

higher even than in September of 2020 when the country was in the grip of the COVID pandemic

and facing another fraught presidential election.

Meanwhile, the NFIB's optimism index remained low at 91.5, marking the 33rd consecutive month below the 50-year average of 98.

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