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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Bill Bishop of the Center for Rural Strategies has crunched the county numbers for the Iowa Caucuses to give us a picture of rural and urban trends Thursday, useful information for campaigns as they move on to future battegrounds.
Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses last night. That’s what they have in common. They differed in the support they found in rural Iowa. Huckabee, the former Baptist preacher and governor of Arkansas, did considerably better in rural Iowa than in urban parts of the state. Obama, the young Illinois senator from Chicago, won rural Iowa, but he did considerably better in the cities.
You can read the full report at the Center for Rural Strategies Website.
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