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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.
Political prognosticator Nate Silver ranked the senate seats up for grabs in 2010, and while U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is still considered a favorite, Roxanne Conlin’s entrance into the campaign has made things “semi-interesting.”
Silver, who earned his political forecasting stripes during the 2008 presidential campaign, ranked the Iowa race as 16th most likely to change hands out of 38 races.
Here’s Silver’s analysis:
16. Iowa (R-Grassley) — Democrats have gotten a semi-interesting candidate in the form of Roxanne Conlin, who has 73 percent name recognition in Iowa. Although Grassley, who had built up a large reservoir of goodwill, has probably not hurt himself quite enough to lose, the health care fight undermined his brand as a bipartisan dealmaker. This race deserves more polling.
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