It's over, again

snipped from dailykos:

Rasmussen Reports has been tracking the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination daily for nineteen months...

However, while Senator Clinton has remained close and competitive in every meaningful measure, she is a close second and the race is over. It has become clear that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. [...]

With this in mind, Rasmussen Reports will soon end our daily tracking of the Democratic race and focus exclusively on the general election competition between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.

Ouch, the pollsters, who make their living polling, have decided it's no longer worth it to pay attention to Clinton. That's gotta smart.

unemployed get busy signal

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-noanswer9apr09,1,417452.story

In January, with the unemployment rate nearing 6%, nearly 12.6 million calls were placed to the state's toll-free phone number to apply for unemployment insurance benefits. But more than three-fifths never got through. ...... One caller last week wept after hundreds of unsuccessful calls, she said. "There's no reason for government to turn a blind eye when they see these things happening."

After the .com implosion you could get barely enough to rent a room in a house with other people and groceries. I can't imagine the despair one would face with one of those evil scam mortgages, the loss of a job and the government hanging up on you when you try to get benefits that won't even cover the above. This lack of capacity and people getting hung up on is what republicans are striving for when they say "small government".